[FRIAM] Metaphor [POSSIBLE DISTRACTON FROM]: privacy games

[David Eric Smith]

The normal word that is used in linguistics is polysemy.

> On May 29, 2020, at 12:48 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Argh! You people! >8^D
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> On 5/28/20 8:32 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
>> I would claim (and maybe this was your intent) that your (Frank) apprehension contradicts Glen's partially...  as I think HE puts "Strawman" up as something contrived to be weak so as to be easy to knock down and used as a proxy for your adversary's *real* position.   I think my apprehension has your element of /reductio ad absurdum/ in it, in that said "Strawman Argument" is contrived to be so absurd that nobody in the conversation would take as anything *but* a placeholder to form a real construction to replace it with.  Or as I said, having only the barest hint of the shape of the evolving argument to be a bit of an armature for a more proper construction.
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> That the class defined defined here has multiple members, that can be mapped one to the other -- i.e. metaphors for each other, does not imply that "metaphor" is a good way to talk about the relationships between those members of that class. Of course! Of course you, SteveS, can define a class that contains both my referent of "strawman" and Frank's referent of "strawman" into the same class. And of course you can then distinguish between the 2 referents. (cf the discussion Jon started re: intensional vs. extensional)
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> But none of this ability to re-comprehend, rebundle referents *requires* the use of the word "metaphor". That you guys loooovvvvveeeee that string of characters, m e t a p h o r, is just plain weird. Nowhere else do people use that string so often, to mean so much.
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> I feel like I'm talking to fundamentalist Christians where every other sentence is punctuated with Praise Jesus!  Hey Steve! Praise Jesus! Where do you want to eat lunch? That's a metaphor! You're right! And that's a metaphor! Praise Jesus!
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> We need to create a website, with some mysterious sounding voice actor and some really inspirational (or creepy) images and video clips ... videos that you can't pause or get by until you've watched the whole thing. Then Bam! We sell you a Secrets to the Universe book ... or some magic itch cream. Everything's a metaphor!
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> Please choose a different word once in awhile... "mapping", "analogy", ... something, anything. Then maybe once in awhile distinguish why you used "mapping" in this case and "metaphor" in that case, "analogy" in this case and "mapping" in that case. Then and only then, will I begin to understand whatever religious concept it is you guys worship.
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