Saturday 8 August 2009

Real-Time Metaphors

'You don`t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it'.

Robert Stetson Shaw in Thomas, S Kuhn
Making a New Science, New York, 1987. (p.262)

3 comments:

catkins_in_nz said...

I love this quote. It is so difficult to conceive of anything that we don't have a word for. Metaphors can fill that gap but then by their very nature they also constrain our thinking....to name something is to control it, the ancient religions used to contend - sometimes metaphors can deliberately lead us away from naming things that others do not wish us to control perhaps.....Interesting thoughts :)

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