Fwd: Re: [syndicate] Re: [chugchanga-l] re: meanwhile back in this century...

[claudia westermann]

>I think this was meant for ALL
>(peter is another person I have to answer also privately, just wait 
>I'm getting geared for it)


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>f.
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you still look kind of surprised ...
found this for you:


Metaphor has long been treated with both veneration and suspicion. 
Thomas Hobbes (1651: Part 1, Ch. 4) identified the use of metaphor as 
one of four cardinal abuses of language and his misgivings about the 
power metaphor has to obfuscate and corrupt thinking have been 
characteristic of the empiricist tradition which he helped to 
inaugurate.

http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol4/metaphor.html


but
the closest to to the 'real' problem might be found here:
http://superstringtheory.com/forum/relboard/messages11/69.html