Lesser-Known Lewis

S3E8 "Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare" (Part 2)


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In the second part of his 1936 essay, "Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare" C. S. Lewis, once again, is defending metaphors as valid, useful, valuable, even necessary ways of speaking about reality. He concludes it is actually those who are best at creating metaphors who are "masters of meaning" rather than those who try to avoid metaphors and stick to the literal. We cannot have just one or the other for, while reason is the organ of truth, "imagination is the organ of meaning."


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