Estimating the Degree of Life

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• Degree of lifeconcept0.892
  The measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).
• The degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.claim0.857
  Part of the fundamental hypothesis, asserting empirical accessibility.
• Empirical Comparison Method for Degree of Lifemethod0.833
  Alexander's method of spending 2-3 hours daily for twenty years comparing pairs of artifacts and buildings, asking which has more life, and identifying structural features correlating with greater wholeness
• the degree of life of different things and places and events is objective - not solely in the individualquote0.806
  Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.
• Degrees of Life frameworkframework0.804
  The conceptual scheme that life is a universal, objective, graded property of all space, detectable by human feeling.
• Paired Comparison for Degree of Lifemethod0.798
  Experimental method where subjects choose which of two items has more life, yielding agreement and a relative measure of life.
• The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.claim0.796
  Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
• We see then that life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured. But it can only be measured, or estimated, in a way which relies on the degree of development, or enlightenment, of the observer.quote0.796
  A key methodological statement encapsulating the chapter's conclusion.