Comments on: The lost power of an explicated metaphor http://www.rondowd.com/2009/01/lost-power-of-explicated-metaphor/ Reflections on visual art, place, psychotherapy and nonduality Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:43:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ron dowd http://www.rondowd.com/2009/01/lost-power-of-explicated-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-108 ron dowd Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:36:30 +0000 http://www.rondowd.com/?p=474#comment-108 Good point Rueben, thanks for the comment. You're right, when something has real meaning for my life no explication of that is going to reduce the meaning... Good point Rueben, thanks for the comment. You’re right, when something has real meaning for my life no explication of that is going to reduce the meaning…

]]> By: headwrapper http://www.rondowd.com/2009/01/lost-power-of-explicated-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-101 headwrapper Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:05:17 +0000 http://www.rondowd.com/?p=474#comment-101 <i>the imagination is used to synthesise the otherwise chaotic and disparate elements of life. To Polanyi these integrations stand with those of science as equally valid modes of knowledge.</i> "Equally valid' and also subjective vs objective . . . meaning is individual. ie the meaning of life = no answer, but the meaning of an individual life or of <i>my</i> life --that's a different story. A metaphor might be seen as explicated objectively but still alive subjectively, if the subjective is nurtured. If they are seen as having meaning by an individual then they are integrated in that they have life and influence through that persons life. But more to the point --way cool drawing! the imagination is used to synthesise the otherwise chaotic and disparate elements of life. To Polanyi these integrations stand with those of science as equally valid modes of knowledge.

“Equally valid’ and also subjective vs objective . . . meaning is individual. ie the meaning of life = no answer, but the meaning of an individual life or of my life –that’s a different story.

A metaphor might be seen as explicated objectively but still alive subjectively, if the subjective is nurtured. If they are seen as having meaning by an individual then they are integrated in that they have life and influence through that persons life. But more to the point –way cool drawing!

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