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James Geary

“that the unknown can only be made known through metaphor and analogy. “When we pass beyond pointing to individual sensible objects330, when we begin to think of causes, relations, of mental states or acts, we become incurably metaphorical,” Lewis wrote. “We apprehend none of these things except through metaphor.”

James Geary, I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World
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I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
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