Post-Cartesian View

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Post-Cartesian Method of Observationframework0.893
  The core framework introduced in this chapter: using the observer's experienced inner wholeness as an objective measuring instrument for the degree of life in external systems
• Cartesian / Mechanistic World-viewframework0.830
  The dominant model of space as neutral, mechanistic, and composed of independent parts; critiqued throughout.
• The post-Cartesian second method of observation is consistent with and complementary to the Cartesian first method, each suited to different domainsclaim0.824
  Alexander's reconciliation: Cartesian method for machine-like phenomena, wholeness method for relative wholeness judgments
• Cartesian method of observationmethod0.818
  The method of observing the world as if it were a machine, separating the observer from the observed, leading to mechanistic knowledge.
• Cartesian Method of Scientific Observationframework0.814
  The dominant scientific paradigm Alexander seeks to supplement: observation of limited machine-like events from an external, self-excluded standpoint
• Cartesian Methodframework0.793
  The scientific method that requires observation by any observer and excludes subjective states, argued to be inadequate for measuring life.
• Two-stage Bayesian viewconcept0.768
  Formalization of anchoring as posterior allocation over pattern clusters followed by output generation.
• The Cartesian method of observation, by forbidding inclusion of the observer's self, systematically excludes awareness of the different degrees of life in spaceclaim0.764
  Alexander's critique of Cartesian epistemology as structurally incapable of perceiving living structure