Metaphor: necessary and distinct.
I accept that we construct (make up/imagine) our "reality". However, without
shared understanding/metaphors I expect we'd encounter chaos.
From: William Conger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Examining the theory
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:16:08 -0700 (PDT)
> 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
