The self is the ultimate measure of living structure; our own feeling is the only reliable instrument.

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• Living structure may be identified empirically by the extent to which it is a picture of one's self.claim0.829
  Alexander claims there is an empirical method for identifying living structure via reference to the universal entity within each person.
• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.821
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
• Personal feeling is an objective quality inhering in things, not a subjective idiosyncratic responseclaim0.814
  Central thesis: universality of personal feeling separates it from mere subjectivity
• A person's own feeling of wholeness is the very best criterion for the wholeness of a thing he is trying to make.claim0.813
• A Self is operationally a temporary, dynamically changing center of gravity serving as functional owner of associations and subject of care across nested scales.claim0.812
• Self as Measuring Instrumentconcept0.805
  The epistemological core of Alexander's method: the human observer's inner state is a reliable, replicable measuring device for objective properties of the external world
• The measuring technique of observer inner feeling provides the mainstay of the claim that degree of life is an empirically observable quality in the worldclaim0.803
  Concluding methodological claim of §9 linking the measurement technique to the empirical status of life as a world-property
• In discovering essential centers in any culture, one's own feelings — when one imaginatively inhabits the situation — are the most reliable measuring instrument availableclaim0.803
  Methodological claim derived from the Peru experience