All 18 Uses of
therefore
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- "They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds."†
Part 1 *therefore = for that reason
- "Of course," I add, "the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds.†
Part 1
- 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
- Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.†
Part 2
- Therefore it emphasized a mastery of the rational foundations of communication in order to understand rhetoric.†
Part 2
- And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn't fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless.†
Part 3
- Either Quality is objective or subjective, therefore he was impaled no matter how he answered.†
Part 3
- "What you like" is unmeasurable, and therefore unreal.†
Part 3
- When he said Quality was subjective, to them he was just saying Quality is imaginary and could therefore be disregarded in any serious consideration of reality.†
Part 3
- The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal.†
Part 3
- Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal.†
Part 3
- I think it's a statement he would have agreed with himself, since any description of Quality is a kind of definition and must therefore fall short of its mark.†
Part 3
- Should we therefore conclude that the axioms of geometry are experimental verities?†
Part 3
- They vigorously ignored the truth that their own "principle of objectivity" is not itself an observable fact...and therefore by their own criteria should be put in a state of suspended animation.†
Part 3
- Phaedrus' mad pursuit of the rational, analytic and therefore technological meaning of the word "Quality" was really a pursuit of the answer to the whole problem of technological hopelessness.†
Part 3
- One's rational understanding of a motorcycle is therefore modified from minute to minute as one works on it and sees that a new and different rational understanding has more Quality.†
Part 3
- Therefore the thing that must be monitored at all times and preserved before anything else is the gumption.†
Part 3
- Therefore they provided a measuring rod for anyone seeking the good books.†
Part 4
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)