The Sound Beyond the Sound: A Realist View of Metaphor
This essay appeared in the Winter 2020 print issue of FORMA
By Michial Farmer
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Immanuel Kant famously divided the world into two constructs: the world as we experience it and the world in its unknowable essence. He called this operation his “Copernican revolution in philosophy.” However, I think it’s more apt to call it a Galilean revolution, in that it was made possible only by a prior and more drastic change in …