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the computer revolution
Definition
dramatic change — sometimes violent overthrow of a government
- With my old Army clothes, walking stick, two-day beard and black beret I must look like some old-time Cuban revolutionary, in for a raid.Part 3 (50% in)
There are no more uses of "revolution" flagged with this meaning in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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- Kant called his thesis that our a priori thoughts are independent of sense data and screen what we see a "Copernican revolution."Part 2 (45% in)
- If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.Part 2 (6% in)
- Nothing changed as a result of this revolution, and yet everything changed.Part 2 (45% in)
- It was the acceptance of the Copernican revolution that distinguishes modern man from his medieval predecessors.Part 2 (45% in)
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