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claim:the-degree-of-life-is-not-merely-a-distinction-between-beautiful-and-ugly-things-but-is-detectable-in-every-corner-of-the-worldThe degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.
Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
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- Part of the fundamental hypothesis, asserting empirical accessibility.
- Ontological claim that the life quality resides in the object, not the observer.
- Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.
- The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
- Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
- A key methodological statement encapsulating the chapter's conclusion.
- Affirmation that life is not merely subjective but an objective, calculable feature of space.