[FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

[gepr ⛧]

On June 20, 2017 6:14:49 PM PDT, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>[NST==>I assume you would agree that “unmarried because unmarried” is
>perniciously circular.  Right?  Just checking. <==nst] 


Vapid, yes. Shallow, yes. Perhaps even vicious. But it's a little too empty, too obviously tautological to be pernicious.


>[NST==>I suppose that one could argue that any time one writes a
>sentence of the form, A is a B, one has launched into metaphor. <==nst]


I disagree, obviously. There are plenty of nonmetaphorical is-a relationships. E.g. a dog is a mammal. E is a letter in the alphabet. Etc.


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