All 12 Uses
lateral
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- In a stunned state Phaedrus began a long series of lateral drifts that led him into a far orbit of the mind, but he eventually returned along a route we are now following, to the doors of the University itself.†
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- At first the truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of your eye.†
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- At first the truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of your eye.†
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- In a laboratory situation, when your whole procedure goes haywire, when everything goes wrong or is indeterminate or is so screwed up by unexpected results you can't make head or tail out of anything, you start looking laterally.†
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- Lateral knowledge is knowledge that's from a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that's not even understood as a direction until the knowledge forces itself upon one.†
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- Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth.†
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- Drifting is what one does when looking at lateral truth.†
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- His lateral drift was ended.†
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- I talked about Phaedrus' lateral drift, which ended with entry into the discipline of philosophy.†
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- I've heard it said that the only real learning results from hangups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you already know.†
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- Just lateral drift.†
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- Lateral drift, waiting for something.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(lateral) situated at or extending to the side
or in football: a pass that is sideways or backwards relative to the line of scrimmage - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)