Tacit Assumption 10: The instinct that there is deeper meaning in the world is scientifically useless and must be ignored.

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• Tacit Assumption 9: The intuition that something profound is happening in a great work of art is, in scientific terms, meaningless.claim0.882
  Ninth assumption negating the deep significance of aesthetic experience within the scientific picture.
• Tacit Assumption 1: What is true is only the body of facts which can be represented as lifeless mechanisms.claim0.834
  First of ten tacit ultra-mechanistic assumptions underlying current cosmology that must disappear for vital architecture.
• Tacit Assumption 8: At a profound level, architecture is irrelevant.claim0.832
  Eighth assumption that building has no special importance beyond engineering or image-making, underlying society's treatment of the built environment.
• Tacit Assumption 4: The basic matter of the world is neutral with regard to value; matter is inert.claim0.813
  Fourth assumption that the universe is made of inert material blindly following laws.
• Tacit Assumption 3: Modern conceptions of human liberty require all values be viewed as subjective; objective value is suspicious.claim0.812
  Third assumption linking political freedom to value subjectivism, undermining objective judgments in architecture.
• Tacit Assumption 6: Art is an intense social phenomenon but has no deep importance in the physical scheme of things.claim0.799
  Sixth assumption denying art a fundamental role in the structure of the universe.
• The ten tacit assumptions form the mental prison we currently inhabit and are the origin of the meaningless world-picture.claim0.794
  Alexander's summary statement asserting the pervasiveness and harm of the ultra-mechanistic assumptions.
• Tacit Assumption 5: Matter and mind, the objective outer world and subjective inner world, are entirely different and disconnected realms.claim0.794
  Fifth assumption, the core of Whitehead's bifurcation, making the self homeless in the cosmos.