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Mental Proliferation, with Isabela Granic

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

CHAPTER

The Importance of Metaphor in the Conversation

There is something about that metaphor of value exchange and using metaphor or terms and using new ones. nouns tend to get more abstract as do verbs over time and they then come to contain more and more things right? And so our most basic words I mean the word may be a good one to use for Buddhists but like a word like set or put these basic words that we have in English now contain multitudes because they've been used over long periods.

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