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The basic metaphor of the cave analogy is made explicit in the simile:
{ 1 } - God is like wind.
{ 2 } - God is the sun.
{ 3 } - Reality is a cave.
{ 4 } - Knowing is like seeing.
{ 5 } - Ultimate reality is fire.
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The basic metaphor of the cave analogy is made explicit in the simile:
{ 1 } - God is like wind.
{ 2 } - God is the sun.
{ 3 } - Reality is a cave.
{ 4 } - Knowing is like seeing.
{ 5 } - Ultimate reality is fire.
Christians, following Jesus, call the Third Person of the Holy Trinity "pneuma," breath or
wind, to express His characteristics of power, life source, etc.
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The basic metaphor of the cave analogy is made explicit in the simile:
{ 1 } - God is like wind.
{ 2 } - God is the sun.
{ 3 } - Reality is a cave.
{ 4 } - Knowing is like seeing.
{ 5 } - Ultimate reality is fire.
The cave analogy does contain the metaphor that the ultimate reality, or idea of the good, is
the sun, but "God is the sun" is not a simile.
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The basic metaphor of the cave analogy is made explicit in the simile:
{ 1 } - God is like wind.
{ 2 } - God is the sun.
{ 3 } - Reality is a cave.
{ 4 } - Knowing is like seeing.
{ 5 } - Ultimate reality is fire.
No, material reality is like a cave, but that does not express the basic metaphor.
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The basic metaphor of the cave analogy is made explicit in the simile:
{ 1 } - God is like wind.
{ 2 } - God is the sun.
{ 3 } - Reality is a cave.
{ 4 } - Knowing is like seeing.
{ 5 } - Ultimate reality is fire.
Although this metaphor lies in the roots of Indo-European language, Plato uses it to
illustrate the unity and difference of sensible and intelligible worlds. See page 68
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The basic metaphor of the cave analogy is made explicit in the simile:
{ 1 } - God is like wind.
{ 2 } - God is the sun.
{ 3 } - Reality is a cave.
{ 4 } - Knowing is like seeing.
{ 5 } - Ultimate reality is fire.
Heraclitus may have thought that ultimate reality was fire, or that it was like fire, but "ultimate
reality is fire" is not a simile, and it does not express the basic metaphor of the cave analogy.
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