The difference in degree of life is inherent in the thing itself, not just a personal value judgment.

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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.claim0.878
  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 individualquote0.848
  Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.
• Degree of life varies with relative configuration of surrounding centers, not absolute properties.claim0.847
• We feel degrees of life in different organisms, even though technically they all have equal biological life.claim0.822
  Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.
• The feeling that there is more life in one case than another is correlated with a structural difference in the things themselves, which can be made precise and measured.claim0.821
  Forward‑looking claim that the life quality has an objective basis, to be demonstrated later.
• 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.claim0.820
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.claim0.814
  A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.
• The judgment about life is widely shared and not idiosyncratic; it is roughly consistent from person to person.claim0.813
  Contrasts with the worry that such feelings are purely private.