All 5 Uses of
revolution
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- 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 *revolutionary = related to or causing dramatic change; of a supporter of the change
- 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
- Kant called his thesis that our a priori thoughts are independent of sense data and screen what we see a "Copernican revolution."†
Part 2
- Nothing changed as a result of this revolution, and yet everything changed.†
Part 2
- It was the acceptance of the Copernican revolution that distinguishes modern man from his medieval predecessors.†
Part 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(revolution as in: the computer revolution) dramatic change -- sometimes violent overthrow of a government
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(2)
(revolution as in: revolution around the sun) circular movement -- sometimes referring to exactly one rotation