[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ELEPHANT:
It cannot, in this case, be a "physical metaphor", since in order for their
to be the "discrete" stuff in physics that you claim to be the basis of the
metaphor, discrete language itself must be used to create it.
Yours is thus a picture of a snake eating itself.
I take this to be a sign that the discrete/continous distiction is apriori
and not metaphorical in origin at all. This is in fact born out by the
dictionary citation which does not limit the distinction to spatio-temporal
sequence, but applies it *universally*.
JON:
You refer to the symbol of the Ouroboros, correct? Was that around in Plato's
day?
