[sp332]

Robert Piersig illustrates these higher-level concepts, which he calls forms,

Pretty sure that's attributed to Plato. Well I guess he called them είδε but he couldn't wait around for English to get invented.

[aero142]

I think that was one of the great things about Zen. It was an unreliable narrator who had megalomania. At one point, he acknowledges that most of what he is stating is pulled from older greek philosophy that he didn't bother to learn properly but then continues to claim to invent new philosophy through the story.

[SilasX]

I get the feeling that most fans of Zen didn't interpret the narrator as unreliable :-/