All 16 Uses
analogy
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- After these explanations he returned to the analogy of the religious church.†
Part 2analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
- It's analogous to the kind of hang-up Sir Isaac Newton had when he wanted to solve problems of instantaneous rates of change.†
Part 2 *analogous = similar in some respect
- Phaedrus' refusal to define Quality, in terms of this analogy, was an attempt to break the grip of the classical sandsifting mode of understanding and find a point of common understanding between the classic and romantic worlds.†
Part 3analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
- He described how a second wave of crystallization, guided by analogies to established mathematics, produced what he later named the "Theta-Fuchsian Series."†
Part 3analogies = comparisons of different things to point to shared characteristics
- In terms of the analogy, Classic Knowledge, the knowledge taught by the Church of Reason, is the engine and all the boxcars.†
Part 3analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
- Romantic Quality, in terms of this analogy, isn't any "part" of the train.†
Part 3
- I keep wanting to go back to that analogy of fishing for facts.†
Part 3
- By analogies to what is known before.†
Part 4analogies = comparisons of different things to point to shared characteristics
- The One can only be described allegorically, through the use of analogy, of figures of imagination and speech.†
Part 4analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
- Socrates chooses a heaven-and-earth analogy, showing how individuals are drawn toward the One by a chariot drawn by two horses.†
Part 4
- Phaedrus says, "All this is just an analogy."†
Part 4
- This entire description of the chariot and horses is just an analogy.†
Part 4
- Phaedrus replies, "Socrates himself says it is an analogy."†
Part 4
- Yes, but prior to that — in, I believe, two paragraphs — he has stated that it is an analogy.†
Part 4
- Of course it's an analogy.†
Part 4
- Everything is an analogy.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(analogy) a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristicAnalogies are typically used to explain something unfamiliar by comparing it to something that is simpler or more familiar. They are also used in argument to suggest that what is true for one situation is also true in the other.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)