@kentpitman@climatejustice.social
2026-09-21 08:04 UTC
I just published another essay on my blog, 'Metaphor Matters.' It talks about the ways metaphors go beyond helping us visualize a topic to influencing how we think about that topic.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/09/metaphor-matters.html
#language #metaphor #philosophy
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@vnikolov@ieji.de 2026-09-22 15:16
Indeed. Sapir-Whorf-territory, too... (It's neither Sapir-Whorf's nor a territory.) Myself, I "made peace" with Facebook's use of "friend" by deciding that a Facebook-friend is not actually a kind of a friend. And then the final sentence does imply that famous observation that the map is not the territory. @kentpitman@climatejustice.social
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@hairylarry@gamerplus.org 2026-09-24 01:39
@kentpitman@climatejustice.social Interesting read.