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[David M]

Hi Ian

Certainly there is more to experience than metaphor,
our experience is rich with values, feelings, sensations,
intuitions, passions, excesses, possibilties, memory traces, 
impossibilities, etc, but making sense of
it, discussing it, co-operating, requires the metaphoric
and differential systems of language.

David M


> Hi DM,
> 
> As you know I've been known to say "everything is metaphor" before
> now, so again I couldn't argue.
> 
> Though having said that Barfield appears to dismiss "metaphor" as too
> simple a relationship between the "inner and outer worlds" - trying to
> reconcile that at the moment - but I think he's reacting to a much
> narrower definition of metaphor than you or I would.
> 
> Regards
> Ian
> 
> On 5/14/08, David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Ian
>>
>> > Yes the core of any metaphysics is axiomatic, and any choice of
>> > direction of ontological splitting, is just that a "deemed" choice.
>> >
>>
>> DM: Yes, I'd add analogy and metaphor as also key to metaphysics
>> and ontology.
>>
>> > There cannot be any fundamental / defintive statement of why any one
>> > choice is better ... other than it works for as much of the
>> > experienced world as possible with minimum inconsistency and maximum
>> > completeness - of course nothing can be entirely complete AND
>> > consistent - so yet more choice about what is "best". Do we really
>> > need anyone to tell us these things ? Bo can't because no-one can,
>> > no-one should be expected to.
>> >
>>
>> DM: Agreed.
>>
>>
>>
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