[FRIAM] Where Metaphors (and Elephants and Spatulai) go to die?

[glen]

FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_object

On 3/21/26 4:48 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
>     (extended from Sociology/Ethnography - I find metaphors *in communication* to be most apt as "boundary negotiation artifacts"...  a placeholder for something we both might understand idiosyncratically to our own personal domain expertise/experience which we then begin to beat on (with a wet noodle?) until we both are sufficiently exhausted  or agree that the thing held between us is "good enough for who it's for" in the moment. 
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