All - that is ALL - statements are analogies (metaphors) at root. But over time metaphors die. They become taken - socially adopted - as the very language itself - (all communication and computation / symbolic-manipulation exploits "compression" ie brevity as a matter of efficiency) - life's too short.
Remember the PoMo (Lyotard ?) map the same size and level of detail as the world itself ? Language of Dead Metaphors - coined by George Lakoff. Ian On 4/8/08, Platt Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Platt] > > Are you saying all statements are analogies? If so, how? > > > > [Arlo] > > Read ZMM and LILA. > > In Lila I find analogies to a cup of tea, map coordinates, high country and > computer hardware/software. How does this explain that all statements are > analogies? > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
