Hi David,
How are you going?
Are they metaphors? Perhaps I'm being too straightforward. I see most of
them as nouns with definitions. For example 'stake holder' - someone who
holds a financial stake in a situation.
For all of the others, I would point to definitions rather than seeing them
as something in terms of something else.
'Complex' - I'm not sure how that is a metaphor at all? Spell it out for me.
I'm not seeing the wood for the trees.
I'd thought this was about the use of metaphor in designing complex
situations, that's a different thing from having a metaphor that simply says
'this is complex'. That seems to be similar to the difference between being
rich and knowing the word 'gold'.
All the best,
Terry
David wrote >>BTW, in talking about complex systems, stakeholders,
relationships, feedback loops and multidimensional problems you are using
some of the prime metaphors of our time.
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