Frances to William with kind regards... 

You have mentioned some very intriguing ideas, but this
assumption of mine about a possible theory of architecture
remains alive but tentative and will be researched further. The
objective aspects of architectural objects or products can likely
be defined globally, because they are sensible facts that are
prone to the laws of nature and thus to the laws of logic. The
subjective aspects of architectural users can also likely be
defined globally, because all normal healthy humans who engage
architecture act in much the same way, so that the psychical
experience in the brain and mind of humans can be globally
quantified. The experience is necessarily related to the
architecture, but the experience is an objective logical factor.
The mental reactions of individual persons or peoples alone, when
held in isolation of all human experiences generally, are
seemingly unreliable and thus irrelevant to defining a theory of
architecture, because individuals can be experiencing a deluded
illusion due to suffering an illness, and not even know it. It is
the collective community of normal experience that is objective. 

The ethereal sense of architecture is a fact as much as the
corporeal stuff of architecture is a fact. If a person believes
that an object is architecture, then that that belief is a fact,
aside from whether they are wrong or that the stuff is sensed as
a fact at all. The mind may usually be strong matter, but all
matter is also effete or weak mind, therefore they are both
objective material facts that are prone to empirical research.
The existence of objective and subjective facts is predicated on
premises that are sound and valid. There is nothing spiritual or
mystical or magical or mythical about human sentience and
experience, or human inference and intelligence for that matter.
Even if the feeling for architecture is the only subjective
experience humans have for it, the feeling must nonetheless be a
reasonable feeling, because human feelings are natural and thus
objective logical facts. 

The logic of relativity must rationally demand that all capable
humans so engaged by architecture are held to be brought into a
relation with the objective object of their subjective sense, and
not into a relation with their sense of the object, because it is
after all the object that is sensed and that is architecture and
that may even be beautiful, and not the sense or experience of
it. The philosophic key here is objective relativism, and not
subjective relativism, nor objectivism or relativism or
subjectivism alone. The poles of objectivity and subjectivity are
bridged by the necessary pivot of relativity. 

William wrote... 
I don't see any point in trying to objectively define the
properties of architecture, because the subjective participation
can't be objectified. If you say that the properties of
architecture are validated by the aesthetic response they evoke,
then you are saying that a subjective condition verifies
objective data. In science objective data must be verified by
other objective data in order to exclude the subjective. Thus if
something is objectively defined that means it does not require
subjectivity. It is such and such whether or not we say so. It's
completely impossible to objectify aesthetic response unless we
limit the aesthetic to certain brain conditions that can be
independently measured and falsified. Why pursue a theory if its
most fundamental premise is wrong? 

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