[MD] Demanding Evidence From Theists

[Matt Kundert]

Arlo said:
"Metaphorical symbolic patterns" includes painting, 
sculpture, dance, music, literature and of course, poetry 
and other forms.
...
Of course, I'd add that "literal symbolic patterns" are the 
S/O illusion. All symbolic patterns are metaphorical.

Matt:
Are you sure?

If all symbolic patterns are metaphorical, then why didn't 
you include physics, linguistics, and biology as things that 
can approach DQ?

If one half of a dichotomy (literal/metaphorical) is an illusion 
(literal), that's usually a good time to--after debunking the 
illusion--find a new way to describe the distinction you still 
wish to use.

Implicit in your delineation of metaphorical symbolic patterns 
is a new definition of literal--how might it be framed to 
capture the other weighted side of the see-saw from what 
appears to be, loosely, art?

What's this distinction between "definition" and "approach,"
only the latter of which can help us with DQ?  Or, to put it 
another way, if all symbolic patterns are metaphorical, then 
what kind of metaphorical pattern is "definition"?

Matt
 		 	   		  
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