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claim:often-the-conceptual-picture-a-person-has-of-a-place-is-an-invented-convention-at-odds-with-the-wholeness-that-exists-and-it-is-even-difficult-for-modern-people-to-see-the-wholeness

Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.

Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.

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If the conception of life is completely general (degree of life in everything), it will be much easier to design buildings, towns, and regions that are alive.hypothesis0.808
Pragmatic motivation for the entire book: a broader definition enables effective creation of life.
Modern people, especially those educated in verbal concepts, often are not holistic perceivers; they perceive according to invented categories that blind them to wholeness.claim0.806
Critique of modern cognition.
Conceptual buildings, not based on an unfolding process, do not fit practical human needs and stand awkwardly unrelated to their surroundings.claim0.805
Consequence of lack of unfolding.
It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.804
Love as the driving force of living creation.
The theoretical and factual substance of the world, its structure and its life, are congruent with the feelings we all have, not with professional architectural images.claim0.803
A metaphysical claim that the true nature of order aligns with genuine human feeling, not with professional convention.
Every living center may be distinguished as living, to the degree that it is a picture of the eternal self.claim0.799
Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.
The existence of this fact is missing from our general way of understanding the world, and modern society has been built on conceptions at odds with it.claim0.794
Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.
The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.793
Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.