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Through the Crack in Consciousness: Nietzschean Metaphorizing
Or, on the Philia of Human Being Nietzsche creates metaphors with words and phrases the way the eyes create neural metaphors out of photons, and the way the brain creates cognitive metaphors out of neurochemical impulses received from optic nerves—phenomenological … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amanda Preston, Being, Cognition, Friedrich Nietzsche, Language, Mental mapping, Metaphor, mirror, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, philosophy, Seeming
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Being Human: On the Metaphorizing Instinct
“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amanda Preston, Being, Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, Instinct, Language, Metaphor, Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Ontology, Perception, philosophy, Truth
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Tagged Amanda Preston, Cognition, Creativity, Language, Metaphor, mind, mirror, Perception, poetry, reflection, thought
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The Poet's Glass 