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claim:these-glasses-have-something-of-the-self-in-them-because-of-that-henk-liked-them-and-because-of-that-they-are-truly-likeable

These glasses have something of the self in them. Because of that, Henk liked them. And because of that, they are truly likeable.

Alexander's interpretation of why the blue glasses were deeply liked by the glassblower.

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Henk Verweg secretly kept one of the blue glasses for himself, saying it was one of the first glasses he had ever deeply liked in his career.
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The chief glassblower's action and confession demonstrate the rarity of objects that truly please their makers.

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Somehow, the experience of real liking has to do with self. As we find out which things awaken real liking in ourselves, we find ourselves more in touch than before with our own selves.claim0.782
Linking real liking to self-discovery.
The things which people truly and deeply like are precisely those things which have the mirror-of-the-self property to a very high degree.claim0.782
A strong identification of real liking with the mirror-of-the-self criterion.
The things which people truly and deeply like are precisely these things which have the mirror-of-the-self property to a very high degree.quote0.774
A precise statement of the core claim of the chapter.
As observers mature, their liking converges because they discover the deeper self that is shared.claim0.769
Developmental claim about aesthetic maturity.
The more accurate we are about what we really like, in the sense of liking from the heart, the more we find out that we agree with other people about what these things are.claim0.763
Assertion of convergence among deep personal preferences.
The things we like from the heart make us feel wholesome when we are near them.claim0.760
First numbered assertion about deep liking.
Comfortable ordinariness and lack of 'image' quality are the main things which produce life in our current situation.claim0.744
Prescribes the way to achieve life in contemporary work.
Mirror experiment cross-cultural agreement: people consistently choose the same objects as resembling their eternal self.finding0.743
In the mirror-of-the-self experiments, people from the same culture and even different cultures agree to a significant extent on which objects embody their eternal self.