We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable ….

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restric….

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle..

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another..

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine..

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics.

... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is n….