Quotes by Max Black - Page 1

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.
Max Black / Philosopher
May
Metaphor
Seems
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Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.
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Metaphor
Understanding
Unraveling
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Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.
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Hate
Mean
Scales
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... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics
Max Black / Philosopher
Accepted
Mathematics
Results
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No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.
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Doubt
Philosophy
Would Be
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We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.
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Children
Cutting
Fire
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... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under a certain description - or a world seen from a certain perspective.
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Believe
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Reality
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