Re: Relational "Space"

[Judith Rosen <***>]

Again, we have a word definition difference; you were using the word
'metaphor' in a way that is synonymous to my father's use of the word
'analogy', it seemed to me. (And in the literary world, the two words are
partial synonyms of each other.)

The word analogy is one he used a great deal in discussing modelling
relations and is what I was referring to, when I spoke of a model being
analogous to the system it models or two analogous systems being models of
each other, etc.

Judith


Tim wrote:
> As to 'metaphor', your father explicitly distinguished metaphors from
> models, where metaphors are occur in modeling relations minus the
encodings.
> [LI 64-66] So, a metaphor is a model-like thing which allows us to make
> predictions (decodings) and to impute things back to the natural system.
But
> we do so without being able to encode back from the natural system: we
give
> up the ability to verify these imputations.