All 45 Uses of
structure
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Some things can be said about Phaedrus as an individual: He was a knower of logic, the classical system-of-the-system which describes the rules and procedures of systematic thought by which analytic knowledge may be structured and interrelated.†
Part 1
- Kingdoms, empires, churches, armies have all been structured into hierarchies.†
Part 2
- Modern businesses are so structured.†
Part 2
- Tables of contents of reference material are so structured, mechanical assemblies, computer software, all scientific and technical knowledge is so structured...so much so that in some fields such as biology, the hierarchy of kingdom phylum-class-order-family-genus-species is almost an icon.†
Part 2
- Tables of contents of reference material are so structured, mechanical assemblies, computer software, all scientific and technical knowledge is so structured...so much so that in some fields such as biology, the hierarchy of kingdom phylum-class-order-family-genus-species is almost an icon.†
Part 2
- The one sentence "I hope you are teaching Quality to your students" was said to him, and within a matter of a few months, growing so fast you could almost see it grow, came an enormous, intricate, highly structured mass of thought, formed as if by magic.†
Part 2
- Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it's derived.†
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- Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it's derived.†
Part 3
- To put it in more concrete terms: If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn't enough.†
Part 3
- I want to start a whole new academic field, gumptionology, in which these traps are sorted, classified, structured into hierarchies and interrelated for the edification of future generations and the benefit of all mankind.†
Part 3
- The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does.†
Part 1
- Finally you see that while I was splitting the cycle up into finer and finer pieces, I was also building a structure.†
Part 2 *
- This structure of concepts is formally called a hierarchy and since ancient times has been a basic structure for all Western knowledge.†
Part 2
- This structure of concepts is formally called a hierarchy and since ancient times has been a basic structure for all Western knowledge.†
Part 2
- There are many other kinds of structures produced by other operators such as "causes" which produce long chain structures of the form, "A causes B which causes C which causes D," and so on.†
Part 2
- There are many other kinds of structures produced by other operators such as "causes" which produce long chain structures of the form, "A causes B which causes C which causes D," and so on.†
Part 2
- A functional description of the motorcycle uses this structure.†
Part 2
- "equals," and "implies" produce still other structures.†
Part 2
- These structures are normally interrelated in patterns and paths so complex and so enormous no one person can understand more than a small part of them in his lifetime.†
Part 2
- The overall name of these interrelated structures, the genus of which the hierarchy of containment and structure of causation are just species, is system.†
Part 2
- The overall name of these interrelated structures, the genus of which the hierarchy of containment and structure of causation are just species, is system.†
Part 2
- People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands that it be that way.†
Part 2
- There's no villain, no "mean guy" who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.†
Part 2
- There's no villain, no "mean guy" who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.†
Part 2
- But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate.†
Part 2
- I see people like John and Sylvia living lost and alienated from the whole rational structure of civilized life, looking for solutions outside that structure, but finding none that are really satisfactory for long.†
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- I see people like John and Sylvia living lost and alienated from the whole rational structure of civilized life, looking for solutions outside that structure, but finding none that are really satisfactory for long.†
Part 2
- If all of human knowledge, everything that's known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all.†
Part 2
- If all of human knowledge, everything that's known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all.†
Part 2
- Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.†
Part 2
- We live in entirely different time structures.†
Part 2
- In this phase he made systematic, rigid statements about what Quality is, and worked out an enormous hierarchic structure of thought to support them.†
Part 3
- But I could see even then that they were a part of a huge structure of thought and I was curious about it in a secret sort of way.†
Part 3
- But when he asked it, because of his past, it spread out for him like waves in all directions simultaneously, not in a hierarchic structure, but in a concentric one.†
Part 3
- As these waves of thought expanded for him I'm sure he fully expected each wave to reach some shore of existing patterns of thought so that he had a kind of unified relationship with these thought structures.†
Part 3
- Now, with the definition blocked, the classic mind was forced to view Quality as the romantic did, undistorted by thought structures.†
Part 3
- Chris is restless and so am I. The language structure is wrong for the mountain forest we're in.†
Part 3
- And there is a faint, faint fragment of memory, possibly wrong, possibly just something I'm imagining, that says he just let the whole thought structure sit like that for weeks, without carrying it any further.†
Part 3
- He meant classic beauty, which comes from the harmonious order of the parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp, which gives structure to romantic beauty and without which life would be only vague and fleeting, a dream from which one could not distinguish one's dreams because there would be no basis for making the distinction.†
Part 3
- What brought tears of recognition to my eyes was the discovery that these unfinished edges match perfectly in a kind of harmony that both Phaedrus and Poincaré talked about, to produce a complete structure of thought capable of uniting the separate languages of Science and Art into one.†
Part 3
- Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of structure.†
Part 3
- Value is the predecessor of structure.†
Part 3
- Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right.†
Part 3
- The famous University of Chicago Great Books program and the reorganization of the University structure along Aristotelian lines and the establishment of the "College," in which a reading of classics was initiated in fifteen-year-old students, were some of the results.†
Part 4
- One can gain great insights into the complex overall structure of the tree by studying the much simpler shape of the shrub.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(structure as in: sentence structure or structure it) an organized form or system; or the act of giving something that form
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(2)
(structure as in: a massive structure) something made of parts -- often a building