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Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down

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The Journey Metaphor of Time

A lot of the time we can do it in a nicer way or a bitchier way. But like, it is kind of the way we try to convince people. And even just the word defend your argument is war-like, right? Well, so one of the things that I started thinking about when with that whole life as a journey metaphor and just time in general is that you would think that time is as grounded a concept as space,. Because Kant would have his beliefs, though. So anything that involves time, it turns out requires something like a spatial metaphor. That seems like a deep inside of us.

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