we implicitly assume that ancient authors could’ve expressed their metaphors in plain and literal prose if they’d wanted to, but > if you read primitive utterances you will soon realize that what we call metaphorical speech was the natural mode of expression for early humans
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Can you expand on this?
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the dichotomy “literal vs. metaphorical” is itself a product of our current way of thinking about things
and that’s when you hit the strange loop - 1 more reply
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