Hi David,
I was happy with the second part of what you wrote about metaphor.
I was responding to your preliminary claim of your action that you,
'...like all of you make decisions, take actions, plan etc etc. This is what people do. Only people do these things and we can talk between us about these things without getting confused. '
My suggestion was that non-human beings and objects (i.e. not only people and humans) can also do actions, create plans and make decisions and that if the human-centric assumption is challenged, it is useful in design theory.
On a different tack, on metaphor, and its central role in creating designs and in design theory, it seems essentially helpful to use the discipline specialising in identifying the accuracy and limitations of metaphor, relations between metaphors, metaphoric constructions and their dynamics, and the accuracy and strength of predictions that can be made using metaphorical structures. That is, mathematics.
Best wishes,
Terence
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