Re: the role of metaphor in scientific thought

Posted by gepr on Jun 23, 2017; 7:17pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/the-role-of-metaphor-in-scientific-thought-tp7590080p7590116.html

On 06/23/2017 12:07 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Many "interpretations" just put off getting to the bottom of things.   Keep the interpretations around long enough to get parallax on a better interpretation, then press Delete.

How about, instead of interpretations, we think of applications, e.g. commonalities between domain-specific languages?

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