readings
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Truth, Validity and Usefulness
There are three closely related — but in my opinion distinct — concepts that ought to be closely scrutinized before discussing metaphor proper. (The post is long but I hope you will bear with me: making the points I wanted to make took many more words than I had anticipated.) ~ Truth is the most…
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Axis? Praxis?
What is the nature of metaphor? What constitutes an effective analogy? What is distinctive about the analogies used in science and mathematics? Can scientific metaphor enrich the wider world of discourse? And how do we deploy metaphor and analogy to achieve our goals? These are some of the questions I’d like to explore in this…