Doing what comes naturally: four metanarratives on what metaphors are for
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Abstract
Science is like fiction, you see. We make up stories, we sketch out narratives, we try to find some pattern beneath events. We are interested observers. And we like to go on with the story, we like to advance, we like to make progress. Even though they are stories told in the dark.But you have your equations. Your mathematics –Oh. Mathematics. Mathematics is like language. No one knows where it came from. No one really knows how it works. More horses and fishes. Horses and fishes trapped in signs. …Oh my God, he said. I am sorry.Don't be sorry. There's nothing to be sorry about. I chose this life.Ackroyd (1989, 159)