The normal word that is used in linguistics is polysemy. > On May 29, 2020, at 12:48 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Argh! You people! >8^D > > > On 5/28/20 8:32 AM, Steve Smith wrote: >> I would claim (and maybe this was your intent) that your (Frank) >> apprehension contradicts Glen's partially... as I think HE puts "Strawman" >> up as something contrived to be weak so as to be easy to knock down and used >> as a proxy for your adversary's *real* position. I think my apprehension >> has your element of /reductio ad absurdum/ in it, in that said "Strawman >> Argument" is contrived to be so absurd that nobody in the conversation would >> take as anything *but* a placeholder to form a real construction to replace >> it with. Or as I said, having only the barest hint of the shape of the >> evolving argument to be a bit of an armature for a more proper construction. > > That the class defined defined here has multiple members, that can be mapped > one to the other -- i.e. metaphors for each other, does not imply that > "metaphor" is a good way to talk about the relationships between those > members of that class. Of course! Of course you, SteveS, can define a class > that contains both my referent of "strawman" and Frank's referent of > "strawman" into the same class. And of course you can then distinguish > between the 2 referents. (cf the discussion Jon started re: intensional vs. > extensional) > > But none of this ability to re-comprehend, rebundle referents *requires* the > use of the word "metaphor". That you guys loooovvvvveeeee that string of > characters, m e t a p h o r, is just plain weird. Nowhere else do people use > that string so often, to mean so much. > > I feel like I'm talking to fundamentalist Christians where every other > sentence is punctuated with Praise Jesus! Hey Steve! Praise Jesus! Where do > you want to eat lunch? That's a metaphor! You're right! And that's a > metaphor! Praise Jesus! > > We need to create a website, with some mysterious sounding voice actor and > some really inspirational (or creepy) images and video clips ... videos that > you can't pause or get by until you've watched the whole thing. Then Bam! We > sell you a Secrets to the Universe book ... or some magic itch cream. > Everything's a metaphor! > > Please choose a different word once in awhile... "mapping", "analogy", ... > something, anything. Then maybe once in awhile distinguish why you used > "mapping" in this case and "metaphor" in that case, "analogy" in this case > and "mapping" in that case. Then and only then, will I begin to understand > whatever religious concept it is you guys worship. > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... > ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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