All 8 Uses of
essential
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- The immediate surface impressions that are essential for primary understanding are gone.†
Part 1 *essential = necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something
- He was so swift at this his StanfordBinet IQ, which is essentially a record of skill at analytic manipulation, was recorded at 170, a figure that occurs in only one person in fifty thousand.†
Part 1essentially = basically (in all important respects; or relating to the basic nature of something)
- A huge proportion of us would be out of work, but this would probably be temporary until we relocated in essential non-Quality work.†
Part 3essential = necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something
- With Quality as a central undefined term, reality is, in its essential nature, not static but dynamic.†
Part 3
- Afterward he waited for a number of weeks for the Chairman to return in hopes of obtaining a scholarship, but when the Chairman did appear an interview took place which consisted essentially of one question and no answer.†
Part 4essentially = basically (in all important respects; or relating to the basic nature of something)
- Thus the dethronement of dialectic from what Socrates and Plato held it to be was absolutely essential for Aristotle, and "dialectic" was and still is a fulcrum word.†
Part 4essential = necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something
- Plato is the essential Buddha-seeker who appears again and again in each generation, moving onward and upward toward the "one."†
Part 4
- What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance.†
Part 4
Definition:
necessary or important; or a basic and defining part of something