On 4/28/2013 11:20 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > Whew! did you swallow a thesaurus? are you saying that you are against > metaphors that claim to be exactly descriptive? But what's wrong with > even that false precision if the user realizes that there's a difference > between the metaphor (theory, simile, etc.) and the object it is being > used to describe?
============ Nomological and ideological have the same number of letters. Why does the critique of one of those metaphors/idioms give you the creeps when it comes to explanatory strategies for dealing with social histories, while you type lots of boilerplate about the other? I love the term 'false precision', though. Performativity has been written about extensively, by non-economists. The performative aspects of language use are as important as the representational aspects; some would consider them even more important. I won't give you a bibliography as you work at a university. E _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
