We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities… — Max Black Copy Share Image
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction… — Max Black Copy Share Image
Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine. — Max Black Copy Share Image
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. — Max Black Copy Share Image
We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there… — Max Black Copy Share Image
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. — Max Black Copy Share Image
... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But… — Max Black Copy Share Image
