The degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.

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• The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.claim0.880
  Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
• the degree of life of different things and places and events is objective - not solely in the individualquote0.875
  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.hypothesis0.867
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• Degree of lifeconcept0.861
  The measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).
• Estimating the Degree of Lifemethod0.857
  A method to measure living structure by the degree of life people experience in themselves.
• The relative degree of life is already there, in the computable, mathematical, structure of the space.claim0.827
  Affirmation that life is not merely subjective but an objective, calculable feature of space.
• In Alexander's framework, a center's degree of life is a function of surrounding centers' configurations and their life-degree—a recursive definition.claim0.823
• Degree of life varies with relative configuration of surrounding centers, not absolute properties.claim0.822