method
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method:paired-comparison-for-degree-of-lifePaired Comparison for Degree of Life
Experimental method where subjects choose which of two items has more life, yielding agreement and a relative measure of life.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Concepts (1)
concept
- Degree of lifeimplementsThe measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).
Methods (1)
method
- 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
Claims (1)
claim
- Practical prescription for design: evaluate life instead of checking functional lists.
Conceptual bridges
2-hop · via this method's ideasWhere ideas in this method connect to the rest of the corpus — the same concept, an analogy, or a restatement elsewhere.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Affirmation that life is not merely subjective but an objective, calculable feature of space.
- Experimental protocol asking observers to compare two systems A and B for degree of life; used to establish objectivity through inter-observer convergence
- A method to measure living structure by the degree of life people experience in themselves.
- Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
- Ontological claim that the life quality resides in the object, not the observer.
- Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
- The conceptual scheme that life is a universal, objective, graded property of all space, detectable by human feeling.
- Part of the fundamental hypothesis, asserting empirical accessibility.