Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down
Very Bad Wizards
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Arguments Are Like a Battle
LZ Granderson: As you start trying to talk in any complex way, like about any of these experiences, you'll realize you lapse into metaphor. And so what you're doing is you are mapping a whole entire conceptual domain and the language that you use to describe arguments is all borrowing from that domain. So they're not one offs. They're not flourishes. They are scaffolds where you're really using that domain to understand the other domain.
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