Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.
... 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
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. - Max Black
...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.
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
Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.
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