Tacit Assumption 2: Matters of value in architecture are subjective.

Second tacit assumption, identified as nearly the central tenet of modern architecture.

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subjectivity of value
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The tacit assumption that values, especially in architecture and art, are merely personal opinions without objective reality, rooted in the mechanistic world-picture.

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Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.
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A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.

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Tacit Assumption 8: At a profound level, architecture is irrelevant.claim0.888
Eighth assumption that building has no special importance beyond engineering or image-making, underlying society's treatment of the built environment.
Tacit Assumption 3: Modern conceptions of human liberty require all values be viewed as subjective; objective value is suspicious.claim0.831
Third assumption linking political freedom to value subjectivism, undermining objective judgments in architecture.
Tacit Assumption 7: Ornament and function in a building are separate and unrelated categories.claim0.813
Seventh assumption, a cosmological split that leads to arbitrary decoration and dead functionalism.
Tacit Assumption 4: The basic matter of the world is neutral with regard to value; matter is inert.claim0.810
Fourth assumption that the universe is made of inert material blindly following laws.
Tacit Assumption 9: The intuition that something profound is happening in a great work of art is, in scientific terms, meaningless.claim0.809
Ninth assumption negating the deep significance of aesthetic experience within the scientific picture.
Tacit Assumption 6: Art is an intense social phenomenon but has no deep importance in the physical scheme of things.claim0.807
Sixth assumption denying art a fundamental role in the structure of the universe.
Tacit Assumption 1: What is true is only the body of facts which can be represented as lifeless mechanisms.claim0.796
First of ten tacit ultra-mechanistic assumptions underlying current cosmology that must disappear for vital architecture.
Tacit Assumption 10: The instinct that there is deeper meaning in the world is scientifically useless and must be ignored.claim0.787
Tenth tacit assumption, the culmination making the search for meaning scientifically empty.