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Originally Posted by Lance Levens
Phillip et al.
Even when you say: "I don't think in metaphors" you're thinking in a metaphor.
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Well, you see, that's my point. When I say "I don't think in metaphors" I'm not
thinking in metaphors, although I may, conceivably, be
saying in metaphors something which approximates, in some way and to some degree, to what I'm thinking.
Experience is private. Language is public. Metaphors are a linguistic convention. The great value of metaphors, it seems to me, is that, while I cannot convey directly the colours of objects a and b as I see them internally (to use a crude example), I can say that, for me, I am having a similar experience, colour-wise, when I view a and b. For some people that will be a recognisable similarity; for others, not. I, for instance, no matter how hard I try, cannot get the idea of a green sky looking like a grasshopper.
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