[MD] Why are things called patterns?

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Hi David,
My guess is that it fit within the rhetoric of the chapter.  I am sure he could have used other terms.  The point is that it is just a word.  "Things" do not really exist as patterns, that is a word he chose at the time.  If one wants to say that patterns is the most enlightening term to use for presentation it should be explained.  To me it sounds like mathematical formula.  As such it leaves a lot out.

Encapsulation of the understanding of a book to a single word seems (to me) to dismiss the message.

Cheers, and thanks for the question.

Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
Mark

On Mar 9, 2012, at 6:04 AM, David Harding <davidjharding at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark, 
> 
> As an aside to our ongoing conversation. I'd like to have another.. 
> 
> Why do you think things are called 'patterns' in the MOQ? 
> 
> The values part is pretty self explanatory. 
> 
> But why did Pirsig use the term patterns?
> 
> -David.
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