Does ultimate truth exist? | Rupert Sheldrake, Güneş Taylor, Peter Atkins, Hilary Lawson
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is the Metaphor Waves Really Out There in the World?
We use metaphor in order to share our or comprehension with hyperlo and we need to communicate. But ithink theories that genera activity, cosmoogy in general, ave emerged byb patting away on paper and and fiddling round with symbols. I think allofth s descriptions are not descriptions of things which are already out there. They are ways to hold what is out there in the way that i gave the example of the different ways that we could hold this a. And we can hold the world as waves. We can use particles as a way of understanding the world. We can operate with all sorts of different metaphors. And they have consequences for us. And they
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