Approximate calculations with symmetries gave accurate experimental results for architectural wholeness (Book 1, appendix 6).

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• Preliminary calculations for a biological example were obtained and reported in Book 2, appendix 2.finding0.791
  Early empirical support for the theory in biology.
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.786
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
• Overall symmetry in a system, by itself, is not a strong source of life or wholeness; local symmetries create coherence while overall symmetry is often naive and even brutalclaim0.782
  Claim distinguishing the deadening effect of large-scale neoclassicist symmetry from the vitalizing effect of numerous overlapping local symmetries
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.780
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• The images or schemata that guide actions may be wholeness preserving or not, and modern architects often paid no attention to existing wholeness.claim0.777
  Moral evaluation of modern architecture.
• Local symmetries act as a kind of glue which holds space together; the more glue there is, the more the space is one, solid, unified, coherent—and the symmetrical segments must overlap for the glue to be effectiveclaim0.773
  Interpretation of the experimental finding: overlapping local symmetries are the hidden structural feature that creates perceived wholeness
• Proving that a program meets accomplishment specifications must be based on assumptions about the world, the information it makes available to the program and the effects of the program's actions as well as on facts about the program itself.claim0.772
  Claim about the nature of accomplishment verification.
• Architectural form should be calibrated with forces of environment through artificial design methods, extending natural processes of interaction between specific quantifiable forces.claim0.772
  Alexander's structuralist approach treating design as homeostatic adaptation analogous to biological systems.