yeah, but the idea that people think metaphorically goes against the grain of "scientific" sorts who think that people think like computers (cf. Steven Pinker).
On 10/19/06, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think any one person was first to make this observation (and I would think of it more as an observation that argument). Notice that classification has a mataphorical aspect. Whoever 'first' spoke of mammals had noticed that rabbits are foxes and chipmunks are elephants and they are all hyenas (at least from one aspect -- and that is all a metaphor ever does, it asserts that A is B _in respect to Q_). Carrol Jim Devine wrote: > > who was it who argued that our thinking always (almost?) involves > similes and metaphors?
-- Jim Devine / "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
