Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.
... 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… - Max Black
... 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…
- Max Black
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 … - Max Black
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 …
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics - Max Black
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. - Max Black
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. - Max Black
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restric… - Max Black
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restric…
Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine. - Max Black
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