On Sep 23, 2008, at 5:13 PM, William Conger wrote:
Nah, all measurements are metaphors.
I've stayed with you on your metaphor/"as-if" approach, because I think that in practically every instance where you mention it, you're using it the way I'm thinking of it (--is that okay, Cheerskep?--). But measurements are metaphors? I can't be that categorical. It's not as if you say, the temperature today is *like* 70 degrees, as if 'degrees' were real things and you are comparing two things. You are asserting that the quality you are measuring--temperature--is calibrated at a certain quantity, expressed in degrees F. That doesn't sound like a metaphor to me.
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