The pin-jointed base mainly deals with one function and nearly ignores the other seven; it gives 100% weight to restraint of horizontal forces and zero to leaning or forming a place.

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• What has the most dynamic force? Where is the weight centered? Where would the axis of balance be if it had to be drawn?question0.749
  Series of questions about quantifying and locating vectorial pressures.
• The Shaker box finger joint started as a formal intuition about the field of centers, and then gradually fitted itself to the functional problem at hand.claim0.747
  Example supporting the thesis that beauty precedes and leads to function.
• Inserting a diamond-shaped compression piece in the lily reduced bending and shear through upper portion via compression preventing internal torquefinding0.743
  Unexpected structural action of a decorative element improved behavior.
• The act of division, creating upper and lower zones, determining proportions of what lies below and what lies above, makes an intervention in the potential field that is as profound as any other act of creation.claim0.739
  Raises spatial division to a foundational creative gesture.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.738
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.734
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• The fifteen properties, the field of centers, and the wholeness thoroughly and completely determine the way that buildings work.claim0.732
  Universality claim that the same geometric properties govern both beauty and function.
• It is the field of centers which is primary, not these fifteen properties, and the properties are simply aspects of the field which help us understand concretely how the field worksclaim0.732
  Meta-theoretical claim that the fifteen properties are derivative from the deeper reality of the field of centers; the properties are pedagogical tools rather than fundamental