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| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Do stage theories discuss when/how children learn strategies? |
| Posted by: | joe becker |
| Date/Time: | 2010/7/11 22:44:44 |
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It seems to me very doubtful that we have any explanations that are non-metaphorical. Isn't any explanation--which by its very nature must be manifested in some symbol system -- a way of using a symbol system as a metaphor for the target that is being explained? And doesn't our experience, eg, the replacement of Newtonian physics with quantum physics, teach that no matter how wonderful a job any of these metaphors do in explaining and predicting, we are wise to remember that they are metaphors, and likely to be replaced by others. I suggest that non-metaphorical is not the criterion you are really after. |