Elephant,
Good. Your msg was like a koan to me. I stil do not follow your logics but as I was
squeezing my brain I managed to convince myself that DQ is continuous by definition,
thus not metaphorically, at least if you define continuous as "non-discrete", which
is fine for me.
I also remember what my literature teacher told me: metaphor is an analogy without
an explicit "like...". That's all.
It also occurs to me that you have a clear-cut metaphorical/non-metaphorical only
when using nouns on both sides. If the left hand of the "like" has a noun, you
really need a noun on the right hand.
So if you say DQ is continuous - if it is a metaphor, that should implicitly be
"like a continuous <something>". If you are thinking of mathematical continuous, you
are saying "DQ is like a continuous function", dropping the "like" and the
"function". It all depends on what hits your mind first when you think of
"continuous".
Thanks
AS
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