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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Different canals could be in frustration, so I suppose it isn\u2019t quite as bad as you say?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of glen <gepropella@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Monday, March 16, 2026 at 11:45\u202fAM<br><b>To: </b>friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] A bold meteorological theory<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I don't see how that could be true. At best, metaphor is a means to keep one in a canal *and* a means of escaping a canal. And that it's both means neither usage is a property of metaphor. I think it's better to state that metaphor is a means of escaping *reality* ... to say things that are not true ... lying, falsehood.<br><br>Of course, some lies/falsehoods can be good. When a science popularizer lies about, say, entanglement in order to provide *some* type of intuition the laity demands ... maybe that's a good thing. The liar may justify their lies in claiming that lie set A is "better" than lie set B. (Or maybe it's a bad thing.) But metaphor is a liar's tool. Attempts to rehabilitate it are the essence of postmodernism (at least as *that* concept is bastardized by the laity).<br><br>Of course, those of us who are OK with being called a _liar_ have no problem with this. But there are those amongst us who blanch at being called a liar even as they lie, the epitome of Bad Faith, reflective or not.<br><br>On 3/16/26 11:04 AM, Prof David West wrote:<br>> Metaphorically stated, unfortunately: a metaphor is just a means for escaping local minima and channelization.<br>> <br>> davew<br>> <br>> <br>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026, at 8:55 AM, glen wrote:<br>>> That's some good advice, there. Narratives like the naked Emperor are<br>>> crucial tools for posers and con men. Each and every metaphor you<br>>> identify in a missive is evidence of the authors' (plural possessive -<br>>> no such thing as a sole author) Bad Faith. And the number of metaphors<br>>> is directly correlated with the extent of the Bad Faith.<br>>><br>>> None of us are innocent. None of us are the child in the narrative.<br>>> It's a venomous fiction, injected by the fangs of the storyteller. Even<br>>> literal babies bring along their own "genetic memory", in utero<br>>> accretion, biases, and expertise. The story, that story and all others,<br>>> is there to persuade, to trick you, to canalize you into thinking in<br>>> some particular set of ways.<br>>><br>>> Now I'd like you to stop thinking about elephants.<br>>><br>>> On 3/15/26 10:17 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:<br>>>> Perhaps I should just drop the metaphor and speak to the beliefs the metaphor represents to me. Expertise both sights and blinds us; great expertise sights and blinds us greatly.<br>>> -- <br>-- <br>¡s\u0131\u0279\u018e \u05df\u0131\u0250H </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif'>\u22a5</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> \u0250\u05df\u05df\u01dddo\u0279 \u01dd u\u01dd\u05df\u0183<br>\u1f45\u03c4\u03b5 oi \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u1f04\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03b9 \u03ba\u03cd\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c7\u03d1\u03c1\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03b4\u03ac\u03ba\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd, \u1f10\u03b3\u1f70 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03c4\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03c6\u03af\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2, \u1f35\u03bd\u03b1 \u03c3\u03ce\u03c3\u03c9.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>