DM, Agreed. Ian
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:41 PM, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian > > Certainly there is more to experience than metaphor, > our experience is rich with values, feelings, sensations, > intuitions, passions, excesses, possibilties, memory traces, > impossibilities, etc, but making sense of > it, discussing it, co-operating, requires the metaphoric > and differential systems of language. > > David M > > >> Hi DM, >> >> As you know I've been known to say "everything is metaphor" before >> now, so again I couldn't argue. >> >> Though having said that Barfield appears to dismiss "metaphor" as too >> simple a relationship between the "inner and outer worlds" - trying to >> reconcile that at the moment - but I think he's reacting to a much >> narrower definition of metaphor than you or I would. >> >> Regards >> Ian >> >> On 5/14/08, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Ian >>> >>> > Yes the core of any metaphysics is axiomatic, and any choice of >>> > direction of ontological splitting, is just that a "deemed" choice. >>> > >>> >>> DM: Yes, I'd add analogy and metaphor as also key to metaphysics >>> and ontology. >>> >>> > There cannot be any fundamental / defintive statement of why any one >>> > choice is better ... other than it works for as much of the >>> > experienced world as possible with minimum inconsistency and maximum >>> > completeness - of course nothing can be entirely complete AND >>> > consistent - so yet more choice about what is "best". Do we really >>> > need anyone to tell us these things ? Bo can't because no-one can, >>> > no-one should be expected to. >>> > >>> >>> DM: Agreed. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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/ >>> >> 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/ >> > > 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/ > 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/
