All 12 Uses
continuity
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- There is a silence and a break in the continuity.†
Part 1 *continuity = consistency
- And instead of just dwelling on what is killed it's important also to see what's created and to see the process as a kind of death-birth continuity that is neither good nor bad, but just is.†
Part 1
- But this is screened out and never gets to our consciousness because we have in our minds an a priori concept that the world has continuity.†
Part 2
- We have in our minds an a priori motorcycle which has continuity in time and space and is capable of changing appearance as one moves one's head and is therefore not contradicted by the sense data one is receiving.†
Part 2
- Once in a while they ask questions that seem to call for a statement of what the hell I'm always thinking about, but if I were to babble what's really on my mind about, say, the a priori presumption of the continuity of a motorcycle from second to second and do this without benefit of the entire edifice of the Chautauqua, they'd just be startled and wonder what's wrong.†
Part 2
- I really am interested in this continuity and the way we talk and think about it and so tend to get removed from the usual lunchtime situation and this gives an appearance of remoteness.†
Part 2
- It's just the lack of smoothness and continuity which threw him off.†
Part 2
- Science works with chunks and bits and pieces of things with the continuity presumed, and DeWeese works only with the continuities of things with the chunks and bits and pieces presumed.†
Part 2
- Science works with chunks and bits and pieces of things with the continuity presumed, and DeWeese works only with the continuities of things with the chunks and bits and pieces presumed.†
Part 2continuities = consistencies
- What he really wants me to damn is the lack of artistic continuity, something an engineer couldn't care less about.†
Part 2continuity = consistency
- Not by its rising is there light, Not by its sinking is there darkness Unceasing, continuous It cannot be defined And reverts again into the realm of nothingness That is why it is called the form of the formless The image of nothingness That is why it is called elusive Meet it and you do not see its face Follow it and you do not see its back He who holds fast to the quality of old Is able to know the primeval beginnings Which are the continuity of quality.†
Part 3
- There is perfect continuity between them.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(continuity) consistency or lacking interruption
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) For more specialized senses of continuity, see a comprehensive dictionary.