Naming and Knowing: Giving Forms to Things Unknown.
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| Title: | Naming and Knowing: Giving Forms to Things Unknown. |
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| Authors: | Leary, David E. |
| Source: | Social Research. Summer95, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p267-298. 32p. |
| Subjects: | Metaphor, Theory of knowledge, Muller, Max, Mauthner, Fritz, Science |
| Abstract: | This article provides some forms and habitations of the phenomenon of metaphorical thinking in science. All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical modes of perception and thought. By extension, metaphor necessarily plays a fundamental role in every domain of knowledge, including the domain of science. Although this is a very large claim, it has the backing of theorists of markedly different persuasions. Max Müller, the great comparative linguist, noted that no advance was possible in the intellectual life of man without metaphor. Fritz Mauthner, the writer and philosopher, averred that without exception every word in its individual usage is metaphorical and that people have learnt to understand metaphor as the term for the phenomenon which others call the growth or the development of language. |
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| Abstract: | This article provides some forms and habitations of the phenomenon of metaphorical thinking in science. All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical modes of perception and thought. By extension, metaphor necessarily plays a fundamental role in every domain of knowledge, including the domain of science. Although this is a very large claim, it has the backing of theorists of markedly different persuasions. Max Müller, the great comparative linguist, noted that no advance was possible in the intellectual life of man without metaphor. Fritz Mauthner, the writer and philosopher, averred that without exception every word in its individual usage is metaphorical and that people have learnt to understand metaphor as the term for the phenomenon which others call the growth or the development of language. |
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| ISSN: | 0037783X |
