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.

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• We seem to have a fundamental observation - so far unexplained - that among pairs of events, bits of space, places, and particles of existence, we can usually judge that one has a greater degree of life and the other less, at least according to our feeling.quote0.838
  Summarizes the empirical bedrock of the whole argument.
• We feel degrees of life in different organisms, even though technically they all have equal biological life.claim0.827
  Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.
• Is it not likely, then, that this sense of more life or less life in things is a private, idiosyncratic judgment without firm empirical content?question0.825
  Rhetorical question that gates the claim of shared, objective judgment.
• The difference in degree of life is inherent in the thing itself, not just a personal value judgment.claim0.821
  Ontological claim that the life quality resides in the object, not the observer.
• 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.claim0.819
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• Life is not a limited mechanical concept; it is a quality which inheres in space itself and applies to every physical structure of any kind.claim0.818
  The fundamental thesis of the chapter and the book, redefining life as a universal spatial quality.
• The feeling a place presents to us is a measure of its life.claim0.810
  Epistemological claim that phenomenological response is the primary yardstick for evaluating living structure.
• Given two versions of a building, A and B, can we tell empirically which one has more life, in a way which allows people to reach agreement — that is to say, objectively?question0.808
  Opening question of the chapter that the entire methodological argument is designed to answer