Analogy Is the Basic Mechanism of Understanding

Dionysus, the areopigite, really talks about analogy as he pulls it into god. The whole point of metaphor is that you are bringing together two things that are simultaneously true in one way and not true in another. When people say they understand something, i think what this means is that they can approximate it in their minds to something else that they already know and think that they can believe. But analogy is interesting because of the difference as well.

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