So it is with language. All language is metaphoric in nature. All meaning eventually arises from personal experience in the body; and language – including, and especially clearly, philosophical and scientific language – metaphorises bodily experience, however abstract (literally ‘dragged away’) its discourse (literally ‘running to and fro’) may appear. It is metaphor alone (the word itself is a metaphor: it means one that ‘carries across’) that can carry us across the apparent gap between language and the real lived world. The meaning of language begins and ends in the body – where it ‘cashes
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