mechanical view of nature

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• new view of natureconcept0.841
  Alexander's proposal that nature is living structure with objective degrees of value, not a mechanistic, value-neutral system.
• Machine-Like View of Phenomenaconcept0.786
  The Cartesian epistemological assumption Alexander critiques: treating all phenomena as machines excludes the observer's self and cannot perceive living structure
• objective value in natureconcept0.755
  The idea that different parts of nature have inherent degrees of value corresponding to their degree of life.
• Cartesian / Mechanistic World-viewframework0.752
  The dominant model of space as neutral, mechanistic, and composed of independent parts; critiqued throughout.
• The process itself is to be part of nature.claim0.747
• Newtonian Mechanics (Classical Physics)framework0.742
  Pre-quantum physics based on point masses and deterministic laws, which cannot explain the stability of chemical bonds necessary for life.
• mechanical perfectionconcept0.742
  The 20th-century ideal of uniform exact dimensions and surfaces, which Alexander argues drives out real life.
• Being-natureconcept0.740
  The quality a structure has when it is deeply connected to the I; what Alexander strives to produce in each element of a building.