Max Black Quotes

• Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

  Max Negro

  Hate, Mean, Scales

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• Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

  Max Negro

  Understanding, Unraveling, Metaphor

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• We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.

  Max Negro

  Children, Cutting, Fire

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• ... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under a certain description - or a world seen from a certain perspective.

  Max Negro

  Believe, Reality, Perspective

  Max Black (1990). “Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles”

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• No cabe duda de que las metáforas son peligrosas, especialmente en filosofía. Pero prohibir su uso sería una restricción deliberada y perjudicial de nuestra capacidad de investigación.

  Max Negro

  Philosophy, Doubt, Would Be

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• ...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

  Max Negro

  May, Metaphor, Seems

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• ... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs.
  The Nature of Mathematics

  Max Negro

  Accepted, Mathematics, Results

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