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claim:the-judgment-about-life-is-widely-shared-and-not-idiosyncratic-it-is-roughly-consistent-from-person-to-person

The judgment about life is widely shared and not idiosyncratic; it is roughly consistent from person to person.

Contrasts with the worry that such feelings are purely private.

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Findings (3)

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Nagoya survey: families overwhelmingly preferred low-rise housing and considered it to have more life
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Survey result from 100 families in Japan, showing perceived greater life in low-rise, high-density housing vs high-rise.
Student experiment: 89 of 100 architecture students chose Bangkok slum house as having more life; 12 chose postmodern tower; 9 abstained
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Empirical result from UC Berkeley lecture in Fall 1992 showing strong agreement on life judgment.
Illuminated manuscript experiment: strong agreement that illuminated manuscript had more life than postmodern auditorium detail
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Result from another student experiment comparing a medieval manuscript to a contemporary wall detail.

Questions (1)

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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?
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Rhetorical question that gates the claim of shared, objective judgment.

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

The difference in degree of life is inherent in the thing itself, not just a personal value judgment.claim0.813
Ontological claim that the life quality resides in the object, not the observer.
For the first time in modern history, ways of thinking are available that make the criteria for 'living' potentially sharable and actually shared.claim0.807
Asserts that the theoretical foundation laid out in the four books provides a public quality standard for sequences.
The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.796
Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.
The single criterion of whether everything is made of beings correlates accurately with the presence of life in the environment.hypothesis0.796
Testable hypothesis that the being-character is a reliable indicator of experienced life.
The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.claim0.793
Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
Although a scientific conception of universal life does not yet exist, traditional Buddhism and animistic religions treat each part of the world as having life.claim0.792
Acknowledges precursors in non‑Western traditions.
The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.792
Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.
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.claim0.791
Forward‑looking claim that the life quality has an objective basis, to be demonstrated later.