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The Invention of Science
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. . . We have seen how the word ‘revolution’ is now used in so many different senses tha tone source of confusion as to whether there is or is not a Scientific Revolution is a failure to distinguish these senses one from another. When I visit the local branch of my bank, I don’t think of this visit business as a tree, but ‘branch’ here is a dead metaphor. So too is the word ‘volume’ when used in the context of measurement: First in French, and then much later in English, ‘volume’ began to be used to refer not to a book but to the space occupied by a three-dimensional object. If I measure the volume of a sphere, the language I am using is a dead metaphor. ~ Page 49
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