(February 20, 2016 at 5:41 am)robvalue Wrote: Try making an argument without using a metaphor or analogy Rik. I suspect you are actually incapable of this.
You suspect it? I'd bet the house payment and toss my grandchildren into the pot for good measure. Not only is he incapable of arguing without resorting to analogy or metaphor, he also seems incapable of understanding the difference between good metaphors and apt analogies and bad ones. This endless sty of a thread is conclusive evidence of that.