I think that in order for something to be really useful and beneficial, it has to have some relationship to truth. I don't think you can plant diamonds and get cheese.
It might help also to realize that I'm a poet, and that metaphors to me are not lesser forms of truth. Really, all of the language you use is an approximation and a metaphor. Including mathematics. It is only a description of reality, not reality itself.
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Date: 2010-11-09 08:25 pm (UTC)From:It might help also to realize that I'm a poet, and that metaphors to me are not lesser forms of truth. Really, all of the language you use is an approximation and a metaphor. Including mathematics. It is only a description of reality, not reality itself.