All 10 Uses of
imply
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- "equals," and "implies" produce still other structures.†
Part 2 *implies = suggests (says indirectly)
- Confusion continually occurs in people who fail to see this difference, he said, and think that control of the church buildings implies control of the church.†
Part 2
- What's really angering about instructions of this sort is that they imply there's only one way to put this rotisserie together...their way.†
Part 2imply = suggest (say indirectly)
- He could take the left horn and refute the idea that objectivity implied scientific detectability.†
Part 3implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- Or, he could take the right horn, and refute the idea that subjectivity implies "anything you like."†
Part 3implies = suggests (says indirectly)
- A "mechanic's feel" implies not only an understanding for the elasticity of metal but for its softness.†
Part 3
- Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute.†
Part 4
- Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute.†
Part 4
- Areté implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization.†
Part 4
- It implies a contempt for efficiency...or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself.†
Part 4
Definition:
to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence