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andrewduckerEverything is a metaphor for everything else, because when you get right down to it "metaphor" means "reminds us of in some way" and human beings are very good at spotting similarities in patterns.
But just because something is a metahpor for something else doesn't stop it being a thing in and of itself.
It's just a matter of perspective.
yet another post that was going to be a comment on someone's journal before I realised it stood perfectly well in its own context)
But just because something is a metahpor for something else doesn't stop it being a thing in and of itself.
It's just a matter of perspective.
yet another post that was going to be a comment on someone's journal before I realised it stood perfectly well in its own context)
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Date: 2003-07-19 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-19 12:57 am (UTC)On the other hand, it's also a post.
In Godel Escher Bach, various methods of avoiding paradox are looked into, but they all basically rely on having 'levels of conversation' and no level being allowed to refer to itself.
Which would prevent posts about posting, of course :->
Hey!
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Date: 2003-07-19 08:22 am (UTC)Geek-kind, I suspect.
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