Supporting the podcast with your direct, monetary contribution helps to ensure that the publication will not grind to a halt due to the adverse conditions under which it is currently produced.   Please consider purchasing our premium content at: https://garrotepodcast.supercast.com   For a comprehensive description of what premium content entails, please visit https://www.garrotepodcast.com/tutorial , and look for the Premium Content Tutorial page.   In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following terms and definitions:   Barbing—“a situation in which two people are actively using the Logos together in dialogue”   Pirsig’s Knife—“a method of decisive subdivision that provides more than one option of analysis”   Pirsig’s Train—“a metaphor for dynamic knowledge”   Being on the Front of Pirsig’s Train—“a condition resulting from optimizing the growth of dynamic knowledge (usually characterized by hesitant speech patterns and an inability to speak articulately and decisively)”   Free-standing Claim—“a claim whose truth value can be affirmed or denied by anyone, regardless of the context in which it is made”