[FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

[Curt McNamara]

With all due respect -- I have looked through these missives and this prose
in vain for any deep examination of metaphor.

For background: the natural systems working group of INCOSE is studying
metaphor as a fundamental skill for designers and engineers interested in
transferring biological "solutions" to the world of design. One thing we
have taken away: to transfer something via metaphor requires that the
(system) attributes "drop away" and that the (systemic) relations are what
is transferred between the domains.

We put a few papers in this folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j4sdk4jflrxsv45/AADEcCHI9dO4n3AtqrYutuy6a?dl=0

The work of Dedre Gentner seems fundamental to us.

           Curt

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 11:46 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Dear Friammers,
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> I understand that some members of the Mother Church are getting together
> soon for a discussion on the role of Metaphor in Scientific Thought.  Hard
> for me to imagine a meeting that I would regret missing more than this
> one.  I hope that some of you will post some of your deliberations under
> this thread so that those of us in the Friam diaspora can have some of the
> value of them.
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> FWLIW, The attached PDF is from a book manuscript,  pieces of which have
> been kicking around for more than 40 years, which Eric Charles has been
> trying unsuccessfully to get me to pull together into something
> publishable. If any of you is curious, the text will help you to understand
> the things I said in the recent complexity discussion and their relation to
> the “levels” discussion and the metaphor discussion that follows.  The
> specific discussion on metaphor is late in the pdf, so that if that is what
> interests you, you can safely skip to the first section on models.  For me,
> a model is just a scientific metaphor. Full stop.
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> If anybody had comments to share, we, of course, would be deeply grateful.
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> There are more chapters.
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> Nick
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