Robert M. Pirsig quote: If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really ...

If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity.

~ Robert M. Pirsig ~

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