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Ha! Yes, the question always boils down to whether or not one gives the metaphor-maker the benefit of the doubt and assumes they don't foist targetless metaphors upon us. The tragic mistake of a modernist is to think other people are NOT zombies, absent of any content at all. "He can't possibly be as empty-headed as he seems. So there must be some deep structure we could tease out if we had the energy."

I've never heard the Chruchill quote, where's it from?

On 10/12/20 2:01 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
> I think it is a grand metaphor, meant to bring in the whole of one of the briefest postal correspondences in the literature of science.
> 
> Boltzmann to his publisher:  ?
> Publisher back to Boltamann: !
> 
> What did Churchill say?  The two things that modern man would worst miss were a classical education and the horse.

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