> Re below: Then, can you conceive of any kind of civilization
> which lacked
> metaphors - as you describe them?
> Geoff C
>
No, I can't. But there may have been a precivilized time when humans
functioned without metaphor. Are you going to suggest that lacking the absence
of metaphor we cannot assert their distinctness? Are you going to claim that
the seeming lack of falsification defeats my expansive claim for metaphor? You
might score on that but I will respond that metaphor is like consciousness. We
can't prove it and thus we can't falsify it but we do believe it anyway
because we can't ponder it without being in it.
WC
