隐喻与理论:天文学个案研究

Q4 Arts and Humanities
T. Grubic
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隐喻使我们能够用一种事物来理解另一种事物。尽管它们是推理和理论化的核心,但人们对它们在理论发展中的作用的理解有限。本文提出了一个隐喻推理的过程,以解决隐喻如何支持理论发展的问题。这一过程适用于天文学,这有助于解释为什么隐喻创造现实,以及为什么隐喻创造现实的一面不能与它们的创造性一面分开。隐喻的矛盾本质意味着隐喻推理是一个开放式的过程。本文还表明,涌现——隐喻的基本属性——解释了它们的矛盾本质。同样的属性使隐喻成为对世界的压缩解释,其特征是抛弃信息。最后,本文认为隐喻是感官与经验之间的抽象中介。鉴于隐喻是推理和理论化的核心,这些发现与我们所知道的理论(创造性的、创造现实的、稀疏的、抽象的和开放式的)一致就不足为奇了。然而,令人惊讶的是,抛弃信息似乎对理论的建立至关重要。本文最后探讨了这对我们理解理论的意义。
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Metaphor and theory: a case study of astronomy
Metaphors enable the understanding of one thing in terms of another. Although central to reasoning and theorizing, there is limited understanding about their role in theory development. This paper presents a process of metaphorical reasoning that addresses the question of how metaphors support theory development. The process is applied to the case of astronomy, which helps explain why metaphors create reality and why their reality-creating side cannot be separated from their creative side. The paradoxical nature of metaphors means that metaphorical reasoning is an open-ended process. The paper also shows that emergence – a fundamental property of metaphors – explains their paradoxical nature. This same property makes metaphor a compressed interpretation of the world, characterized by the discarding of information. Finally, it is argued that metaphors are abstract intermediaries between senses and experiences. Given that metaphors are central to reasoning and theorizing, it is not surprising that these findings are consonant with what we know about theory (creative, reality-creating, sparse, abstract and open-ended). What is surprising, though, is that the discarding of information seems to be essential for the building of theory. The paper concludes by exploring what this entails for our understanding of theory.
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Prometheus (Italy)
Prometheus (Italy) Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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