All 6 Uses of
alternative
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy.†
Part Aft. *alternatives = possibilities
- What Copernicus did was take the existing a priori concept of the world, the notion that it was flat and fixed in space, and pose an alternative a priori concept of the world, that it's spherical and moves around the sun; and showed that both of the a priori concepts fitted the existing sensory data.†
Part 2
- A third rhetorical alternative to the dilemma, and the best one in my opinion, was to refuse to enter the arena.†
Part 3
- Now there was an alternative explanation: people disagreed about Quality because some just used their immediate emotions whereas others applied their overall knowledge.†
Part 3
- This book offers another, more serious alternative to material success.†
Part Aft.
- It's not so much an alternative as an expansion of the meaning of "success" to something larger than just getting a good job and staying out of trouble.†
Part Aft.
Definitions:
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(1)
(alternative as in: an alternative plan) a different choice or possibility, or describing something that offers a different choice or possibility
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(2)
(alternative as in: alternative medicine) non-traditional or non-standard