I just want to reiterate a previous post of mine and this post of KHK --
there are many aspects, there are many views. It is important to find the
spin that will bring a productive perspective. Each domain accommodates and
privileges a point of view that can contribute significantly to the
resolution of a particular problem.
With this I do not intend to sideline this interesting discussion. My
desire is to find out a direction.
Regards,
Lubomir Popov
At 02:31 PM 7/24/2003 +0300, Kari-Hans Kommonen wrote:
>I think the point of view of design is easy to obscure here, if we
>emphasize the linguistic, philosophical, cognitive science etc.
>points of view, since these latter ones do not have to worry about
>the usefulness and applicability of their arguments to design and
>understanding of design.
>
>As designers we must learn from them what we feel is useful and apply
>it ourselves. And then, our applications, interpretations and
>reframings may not sound compatible with the theoretical points of
>view. However, I think that a more design point of view, a more
>applied one, is also very fruitful for understanding the concepts
>more holistically and realistically - that is, in a fuller relation
>to reality.
>
>In that I also second the importance of the knowing-how-it-feels or
>tacit understandings and uses of metaphor and analogy, which Tim
>seems to bring up...
>
>A tight definition of anything is useful only in certain
>circumstances, because in the end its validity is always dependent on
>the conditions under which it was created and the conceptual
>environment it should be fitted in. So if our conditions are those of
>1) a designer thinking about how to understand the meaning of
>metaphor in her profession, or 2) a cognitive scientist crafting a
>theory of cognition and utilizing metaphor as a building block there
>- we will likely come up with two different (but probably, hopefully,
>compatible and complementary) ideas of metaphor.
>
>kh
>
>At 11:19 +0100 24.7.2003, Michael A R Biggs wrote:
>>Dear all
>>
>>I think we might be getting side-tracked here.
>>I actually agree with much of what has been said about the virtues
>>of metaphor.
>
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