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claim:the-ten-tacit-assumptions-form-the-mental-prison-we-currently-inhabit-and-are-the-origin-of-the-meaningless-world-pictureThe ten tacit assumptions form the mental prison we currently inhabit and are the origin of the meaningless world-picture.
Alexander's summary statement asserting the pervasiveness and harm of the ultra-mechanistic assumptions.
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- First of ten tacit ultra-mechanistic assumptions underlying current cosmology that must disappear for vital architecture.
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- Ninth assumption negating the deep significance of aesthetic experience within the scientific picture.
- Tenth tacit assumption, the culmination making the search for meaning scientifically empty.
- Fifth assumption, the core of Whitehead's bifurcation, making the self homeless in the cosmos.
- Third assumption linking political freedom to value subjectivism, undermining objective judgments in architecture.
- Eighth assumption that building has no special importance beyond engineering or image-making, underlying society's treatment of the built environment.
- Tacit Assumption 4: The basic matter of the world is neutral with regard to value; matter is inert.claim0.755Fourth assumption that the universe is made of inert material blindly following laws.
- Paper's ontological tripartition used to dissolve the Hard Problem
- Second tacit assumption, identified as nearly the central tenet of modern architecture.