... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under… — 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
