Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

toward unchanging truth through the application of scientific method, you actually do not move toward it at all. You move away from it! It is your application of scientific method that is causing it to change!

Not really. You do move towards it, as each new update explains previous unexplained phenomena thus move closer to the unattainable truth

“But though all knowledge begins with experience it doesn’t follow that it arises out of experience.”

An example of a priori knowledge is “time.” You don’t see time. Neither do you hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it. It isn’t present in the sense data as they are received. Time is what Kant calls an “intuition,” which the mind must supply as it receives the sense data.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.