Just to clarify, no, that's not at all what I did. I did not propose onion as a source and layer as a target. That completely misses my point. An onion is a thing that can be sliced up, thought about, analyzed, by various different methods. No metaphor involved. This tendency to see metaphors everywhere is a strange disease we're inflicted with. 8^)
On 06/12/2017 09:39 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > In the example at hand, Glen invoked "an Onion" as the /source/ domain in a > metaphor to try to understand the more general and abstract target domain of > /layer/. Other /source/ domains (deposition layers, skin, geology) were > offered as well to offer conceptual parallax on this. -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
