Blog 2

I did notice differences in the text as I read it for a second time. When I first read the quote, “At a conceptual level, life is a journey, and arguments are wars: you take sides, there can be only one winner, evidence is a weapon”, I took it very literally and did not look understand exactly what Erard was trying to show us. However, after talking about it in class and reading the text for the second time, I noticed that if you switch up the metaphor, to “Life is a war, and arguments are a journey”, perhaps, it will have a completely different meaning. Basically, this means that I think that a metaphor can have two or more completely different meanings, depending on how creative you are and how much thought you put into trying to create a new meaning. I also realized fully what the difference was between the concepts of metaphor as mapping and metaphor by category. Metaphor as mapping is much easier to understand while reading and metaphor as category seems to be more meaningful. It is not that metaphor as mapping cannot be meaningful, but I think that when metaphors are portrayed through categories you can understand what the metaphor with more thought and meaning. Finally, I more fully understood the concept of looking at metaphor like a room. At first I thought that the room was just the metaphor, and the furniture was just helping points, but I realized that there is much more to that. The room is just what you look through to see the complete meaning of the metaphor, and the furniture just explains it further. For example, if you think of a mirror, you think of a reflection, and this applies to metaphors in the way that they usually have multiple meanings, or “reflections”, that are meant to be interpreted by your own thought and creativity.

Glossing

I looked up the definition of pseudo to understand what Erard means when he talks pseudo-mistakes. The word pseudo, according to https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pseudo, basically means false. This means that pseudo-mistakes are false mistakes that people create deliberately to help people think of solutions to certain problems.

I also looked up the name Dante, who was mentioned in the first paragraph of the text, and found him to be Dante Alighieri, a 14th century poet who used metaphor very often to help the audience of his work visualize his poems.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/metaphors-in-dantes-inferno.html

 

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