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From the West Dean experience: the north wall alone required approximately 500 such judgments.
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- West Dean Visitor's CentresupportsThe test-bed project where innovative brick, concrete, flint, and stonework were developed, informing the Mary Rose Museum.
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- Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
- The troubling consequence of true self-pleasing: it produces beauty so deep it reveals the divine, which makes modern people uncomfortable.
- The diagnostic question for distinguishing genuine liking from artificial or conventional preference.
- Einstein's assertion invoked to explain why BMR preserves accuracy while reducing complexity
- Roughness in non-essentials allows concentration on essentials.
- Final point suggesting that deep liking connects us with universal reality.
- The epistemological distinction crucial to the argument.