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"A metaphor is a lie"
I heard this today on the runesoup podcast.
To my mind that sentence is forcing a connotation on metaphor which it doesn't have. A lie connotes intent. Specifically an intent to deceive. If you state a fact that you believe to be true but which is later shown to be false, you have not lied.
A metaphor is an analogy. It is a matching of patterns, not an identification as something. Matching is not equating. It is a form of alignment.
Fictions are true within their own worlds. They and metaphors are harmonies. Lies are discordances.
I heard this today on the runesoup podcast.
To my mind that sentence is forcing a connotation on metaphor which it doesn't have. A lie connotes intent. Specifically an intent to deceive. If you state a fact that you believe to be true but which is later shown to be false, you have not lied.
A metaphor is an analogy. It is a matching of patterns, not an identification as something. Matching is not equating. It is a form of alignment.
Fictions are true within their own worlds. They and metaphors are harmonies. Lies are discordances.
