65% of respondents said the dime has more life than the quarter.

Reinforces that smaller, brighter objects can be perceived as more alive even compared to larger coins of greater value.

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Claims (1)

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The mirror-of-the-self test produces judgments of relative life that are consistent across people and correspond to objective living structure.
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Central methodological claim of the chapter, supported by multiple experiments.

Findings (1)

finding

A majority of respondents said the dime has more life than the nickel.
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Demonstrates the role of concentrated brightness and smallness in perceived life, independent of monetary value.

Related by similarity (8)

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

Which one has more life?question0.787
The central empirical question Alexander repeatedly asked himself during twenty years of observation, and which he invites readers to ask when comparing any two artifacts or buildings
The feeling that there is more life in one case than another is correlated with a structural difference in the things themselves, which can be made precise and measured.claim0.762
Forward‑looking claim that the life quality has an objective basis, to be demonstrated later.
Arch A has more life than Arch B, reflected in the more coherent structure of its wholeness.claim0.760
Aesthetic judgment of the two arch drawings, illustrating that life can be objectively assessed through the structure of centers.
88% of respondents judged an ax as having more life than a Phillips screwdriver.finding0.753
Illustrates consensus that a hand-forged tool carries more life than a mass-produced tool.
Is it not likely, then, that this sense of more life or less life in things is a private, idiosyncratic judgment without firm empirical content?question0.743
Rhetorical question that gates the claim of shared, objective judgment.
When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.738
Given two versions of a building, A and B, can we tell empirically which one has more life, in a way which allows people to reach agreement — that is to say, objectively?question0.733
Opening question of the chapter that the entire methodological argument is designed to answer
We seem to have a fundamental observation - so far unexplained - that among pairs of events, bits of space, places, and particles of existence, we can usually judge that one has a greater degree of life and the other less, at least according to our feeling.quote0.731
Summarizes the empirical bedrock of the whole argument.

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Other entities that say roughly the same thing. May be merge candidates or independent restatements across papers.

finding
A majority of respondents said the dime has more life than the nickel.