Case Is not all metaphor childish? Without it we would have no science. Do you consider sciences current metaphors and analogies especially adult? If so why?
David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Case" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Heads or tails? > [David M] > Of course we can make all kinds of distinctions, different splits, > entities, > objects and therefore different relationships. Got this feeling that > behaviours change at different levels. Thats why water is very different > to > hydrogen and oxygen in terms of behaviour. > > [Case] > Yes, and we can come up with perfecting acceptable metaphors to describe > these things at different levels. On a child's level for example it makes > sense to say the oxygen loves hydrogen twice as much as hydrogen loves > oxygen so when they get married one oxygen marries two hydrogens and we > can > fill our squirt guns with their babies. > > Our description of these distinctions depends a lot on who we are talking > to > and why; relationships on relationships. But I think it is important to > note > that similarity is also a relationship. My skimming of the Deleuze Wiki > suggests that he make much of this point. > > See, it's not like I ignore your reading suggestions. > > 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/
