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metaphor
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Showing posts with label
metaphor
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Saturday, March 5, 2016
Whatever content can be conveyed metaphorically can be said literally
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Suppose you say something metaphorical, and by means of that you convey to me a content p . I now stipulate that "It's zinging...
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
"Figuratively"
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Consider this great T-shirt slogan (I have no financial ties to the seller, but if you click on it you can buy the shirt with it). Everyon...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Pushing language too far
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Quantum Mechanics has borne much fruit. Is this fruit poisonous? Probably not. But is the total weight of the fruit borne by Quantum Mech...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Theology versus philosophical theology
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When I was a mathematics graduate student, a mathematical physicist described to me the difference between mathematical physics and th...
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