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The test of wholeness experienced by an observer encompasses ecological appropriateness, social value, beauty, and comfort — all wrapped together in the global judgment of wholeness

Alexander argues the wholeness criterion is not naive but integrates all dimensions of architectural quality

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What is good and what is bad in architecture? What is better and what is worse?
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The fundamental architectural judgment question that the wholeness criterion is meant to resolve

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Different human observers report very similar results when using the wholeness-feeling test, and their observations convergeclaim0.839
Empirical basis for the objectivity of the second method: inter-observer agreement validates that the wholeness measure tracks something real
To see wholeness as it is requires purity of mind, because thoughts, mental constructs, theories, ideas, and images all interfere with perception of wholeness and make it difficult to see.claim0.810
A cognitive‑perceptual explanation drawn from the earlier HUGGINS & ALEXANDER experiment.
A person's own feeling of wholeness is the very best criterion for the wholeness of a thing he is trying to make.claim0.807
The relation between a person's own wholeness and the wholeness of things in their environment is a direct consequence of the nature of wholeness itself.claim0.801
Observation of a person's inner state of wholeness can give reliable and objective information about the objective living character of systems in the external worldclaim0.799
Central claim of the chapter: what appears subjective (inner feeling) is actually an objective measuring instrument for external reality
Within the framework of wholeness, value is an objective phenomenon which arises inevitably from the degree to which unfolding has been truthful—guided by the fifteen structure-preserving transformations.claim0.795
A new view of ethics and aesthetics where goodness is equated to smooth unfolding from existing wholeness.
The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.795
Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
Almost every person experiences the making of wholeness, like food.claim0.791
Generalization from personal and student experience.