Science is based in metaphor

Metaphor allows us to interpret and intervene in the world.

Our science is necessarily perspectival and rooted in metaphor. Like maps, these metaphors are useful, but we shouldn't mistake the map for the territory, writes Andrew Reynolds.

 

There is a very common view of science, one is inclined to call it the ‘common sensical’ view, that depicts science as the objective description of reality, telling us what kinds of things there are in the world and how they work. We then apply that objective knowledge to create new technologies and medical therapies and so on.

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Reem sultan 25 January 2024

Metaphors and other parallels can be used in instruction to make the unfamiliar familiar. Generally speaking, similes are preferable to metaphors, MBA Assignment Help assignmentmasters.ae/mba-project-help makes students understand that a comparison is being proposed rather than an identification or equivalency.

hana min 23 January 2024

Technology many scientists have studied to this day, yet they are still unable to fully study. All science is in essence a state of uncertainty and metaphor. The subject of my science-related Contract Law Dissertation Topics was scientific metaphors. Metaphors are typically the basis for scientific inquiry since they encourage further observation and hypothesis development.

Brian Mckay 16 July 2021

A metaphor is a figure of speech that helps convey a concept or create a comparison by describing an item or event in a way that isn't literally true. One item is compared to another in a metaphor. https://britishdissertationhelp.co.uk/

Alice Morgan 9 June 2021

Science is a very vast topic and up till now many scientists explore it but they still cant explore the whole. Science is basically a metaphor and a state that is undefined. I did a CIPD essay writing malaysia on science and the topic was a metaphor in science. Scientists usually do researches based on metaphors as that will lead to further observation and hypothesis.

Bobby Rencher 3 June 2021

interesting uptake! sometimes it is very hard to agree but with your great explanation it all makes sence.

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Eric Blaire 26 May 2021

Ask the people of Hiroshima whether scientific reality is objective or not.

Richard_S 26 May 2021

I think this title was misleading - science isn't based in metaphor, language itself is metaphor. In this way every human endeavour which involves linguistic communication is 'based in metaphor'. Science is based in experiment - a way of treating the 'metaphors' (if you like), or, better, 'theories' that we have about the way the world works.