Vladimir_Nesov comments on Living Metaphorically - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lukeprog 28 November 2011 03:01PM

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Comment author: michaelcurzi 30 November 2011 12:23:07AM 4 points [-]

What happens when we fail to realize that our thinking is metaphorical?

We also get Deep Wisdom platitudes, like Pico Iyer's statement in How to Live Forever that went something like 'a life is like a book, and a book needs an ending, so lives need to end too.'