The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.

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• The degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.claim0.880
  Part of the fundamental hypothesis, asserting empirical accessibility.
• The difference in degree of life is inherent in the thing itself, not just a personal value judgment.claim0.878
  Ontological claim that the life quality resides in the object, not the observer.
• Degree of life varies with relative configuration of surrounding centers, not absolute properties.claim0.869
• the degree of life of different things and places and events is objective - not solely in the individualquote0.868
  Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space... every connected region of space... has some degree of life, and that this degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.hypothesis0.850
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• The degree of life of each center is correlated with the degree to which that center is a picture of the self, and this holds for all people, not just individuals.claim0.849
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• We see then that life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured. But it can only be measured, or estimated, in a way which relies on the degree of development, or enlightenment, of the observer.quote0.849
  A key methodological statement encapsulating the chapter's conclusion.
• The relative degree of life is already there, in the computable, mathematical, structure of the space.claim0.848
  Affirmation that life is not merely subjective but an objective, calculable feature of space.