Re: memes

• To: open-memesis@aec.at
• Subject: Re: memes
• From: Onar Aam <onar@hsr.no>
• Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 12:28:46 +0200
• In-Reply-To: Your message of "23 May 1996 15:48:21 EDT." <960523194820_100143.100_EHV161-1@CompuServe.COM>
• Sender: owner-open-memesis

>Truth in Metaphor. We know that
>in making sense of things Metaphor  is useful (it had better be, it's all we've
>got) and that some metaphors are more useful than others. But any suggestion
>that 'The Truth' is to be found therein is simply childish.


Very true! For a discussion about the limited nature of truth see my 1994
article "Perspectivism" on http://www.stud.his.no/~onar/Ess/Perspectivism.html.



Onar.

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