Perfect! May it be a vague, wandering walk, so you can enjoy the
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x (algebra) is metaphorical. People often don't realize, in this
days of the Glorification of all things Mathematics,that numbers
themselves are metaphors - stand-ins for another concept. Yet we
treat them as-if they have substance of their own, but they
don't, except as a system when in use. But I must express my
bias here. I made a book that nobody will buy because it's a
mess. While everybody is looking to improve the specificity of
things, I look to see what things have in common; INTENTIONALLY
exposing their vagueness and metaphorical value.
Over a weekend once a few years ago, I took the largest
available English thesaurus used by linguists and such, and
cross-referenced all of it to itself, to see what happened. I
found a pattern. What is the meaning of this pattern? I don't
know, except that in SOME WAY, each of the words in the 5 ...
categories I guess that emerged, have _something_ in common with
each other.
