ENG205H1 Lecture Notes - Platonic Love
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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, part two. Study of motorcycle maintenance = study of art of rationality itself. Pirsig sees himself as working on concepts--it is a mental phenomenon. Two kind of logic: inductive and deductive. Scienti c method: statement, hypotheses, experiments, predicted results, observed results, Inductive: start with observations and arrive at general conclusions. Deductive: move from particular instances to general truths. Purpose of scienti c method: make sure you don"t lead yourself to think you know something. The art of anything is just as dependent on your own mind as it is on the material of the medium. Importance of having peace of mind before sitting down to any task. The necessary and the contingent: anchoring rhetoric in the realm of the contingent. That"s all there ever is: people talking in one place, at once time, in a certain circumstance, etc. The sophists argued that this was not the only way to look at things.
