Re: the role of metaphor in scientific thought

Posted by gepr on Jun 21, 2017; 4:17am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/the-role-of-metaphor-in-scientific-thought-tp7590080p7590099.html



On June 20, 2017 6:14:49 PM PDT, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>[NST==>I assume you would agree that “unmarried because unmarried” is
>perniciously circular.  Right?  Just checking. <==nst]


Vapid, yes. Shallow, yes. Perhaps even vicious. But it's a little too empty, too obviously tautological to be pernicious.


>[NST==>I suppose that one could argue that any time one writes a
>sentence of the form, A is a B, one has launched into metaphor. <==nst]


I disagree, obviously. There are plenty of nonmetaphorical is-a relationships. E.g. a dog is a mammal. E is a letter in the alphabet. Etc.


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