All 5 Uses of
capricious
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- The preselection of facts is not based on subjective, capricious "whatever you like" but on Quality, which is reality itself.
Part 3 *capricious = whim (or unpredictable chance)
- To leave the impression in the scientific world that the source of all scientific reality is merely a subjective, capricious harmony is to solve problems of epistemology while leaving an unfinished edge at the border of metaphysics that makes the epistemology unacceptable.†
Part 3capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- It is not capricious, it is the force that opposes capriciousness; the ordering principle of all scientific and mathematical thought which destroys capriciousness, and without which no scientific thought can proceed.†
Part 3
- It is not capricious, it is the force that opposes capriciousness; the ordering principle of all scientific and mathematical thought which destroys capriciousness, and without which no scientific thought can proceed.†
Part 3capriciousness = impulsiveness or unpredictability
- It is not capricious, it is the force that opposes capriciousness; the ordering principle of all scientific and mathematical thought which destroys capriciousness, and without which no scientific thought can proceed.†
Part 3
Definition:
impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior