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‘People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
A metaphor is formed when two aspects of the world become linked together in a meaningful way. For example, we talk of a stormy meeting. We take the turmoil and chaos of a storm and make correspondences with the turmoil and chaos of a conflicted meeting.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
"The truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions."
- Friedrich Nietzsch... See more
- Friedrich Nietzsch... See more
Alex Kennedy • Tweet
Metaphor originates from the Greek word meta meaning ‘across’ and pherein meaning ‘to carry’. Metaphor allows us to bring forth or carry over a deeper context which words on face-value can lack.
Giles Hutchins • The Need For Metaphor: A Shift from Machine to Nature
Good example of motif:
“On one side, we had the recipe fundamentalists, like my aunt who wouldn’t dare swap out walnuts for pecans, lest she commit a culinary sin worthy of excommunication.“
In a single example, there are three words that all point to the same religious metaphor: fundamentalist, sin, excommunication. Motif speaks to how strong your m
... See moreThe physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.