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        Date: 2025-06-03 06:50:58+00:00
        From: Michael Falk <michaelgfalk@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 39.38: 'content'

Hi Willard,

What you say reminds me of Reddy’s famous discussion of the conduit-metaphor. It
is a paper that every talking head should have to read before they start banging
on about AI and its role in public communication!

There is no such thing as ‘content’!

Reddy, Michael J. “The Conduit Metaphor: A Case of Frame Conflict in Our
Language about Language.” In *Metaphor and Thought*, edited by Andrew Ortony,
2nd ed., 164–201. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139173865.012.

Cheers,

Michael
https://michaelfalk.io


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