Does ultimate truth exist? | Rupert Sheldrake, Güneş Taylor, Peter Atkins, Hilary Lawson
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is There a Metaphor in the Language of Data?
i wanted to ask you about this because you use vast quantities of data and presumably as a point at which things might become incommunicable without metaphor. Is there a possibility that then things are inevitably simplified when they go into language? And do the metaphors matter? Do you think? Or is it just a sort of useful means of conveying these vast quantities? Ganesh: The short answer to all those questions is yes. I mean, that that's the nature of human, human beings, basic. That's thenature of all language. But i'm afraid, rupert, that increasing hemiolecular biologists are going in into the realms of physics,. Unfortunately for us, am
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