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	Plato's Metaphors
		Plato's Republic uses the sun as a metaphor for the source of "illumination", arguably intellectual illumination, which he held to be The Form of the Good, which is sometimes interpreted as Plato's notion of God.
		This doctrine conveyed by the metaphor of the sun is, incidentally, an excellent example of how, traditionally, the subjects of metaphysics and epistemology have been closely intertwined: accounts of what exists, at a fundamental level, often deeply inform (and are informed by) accounts of ways or kinds of knowing.
		Metaphor of the sun seems to be alluding that from seeing things in light of sun we can raise to seeing ideas in the light of the Good while in cave it is not evident that it can not be done without considerably violent helping and forcing prisoners to look at light.
	www.crystalinks.com /platometaphors.html (0 words)

	Metaphor -
		A metaphor, according to I.A. Richards in The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936), consists of two parts: the tenor which is the subject to which attributes are ascribed, and the vehicle, which is the subject from which the attributes are derived.
		An active metaphor is one which by contrast to a dead metaphor, is not part of daily language and is noticeable as a metaphor.
		Metaphor taken to its extreme may be called a hyperbole (in cases where a metaphor is exaggerated) or catachresis (in cases where a metaphor borders on nonsense).
	sunshynkid.com /metaphor.shtml (0 words)

	Sol
		Our metaphors about stars and light change the character and goals of our knowledge, primarily because ‘star’ and ‘light’ are not merely metaphors — they are instead amongst the precursors from which metaphors are actively derived.
		The Sun is not an exploding ball of gas.
		The Sun is the source of those beings who assemble knowledge from form, and the more their method of assembly is alike with their source...
	www.organelle.org /organelle/sindex2.html (0 words)

	Sun Ra
		Throughout the 60's Sun Ra continued to record for his own deliberately poorly distributed Saturn Records label, and also on various European labels, while touring widely and continuing to spread the fame of his live performances.
		In recent years Sun Ra has steadily returned to the music of the near past - the standards and jazz classics he grew up with - although it is all filtered through his delighfully off center perspective.
		Sun Ra's music transcends earthbound limitations by riding the flights of imagination, and his message is that all of us are free to ride those flights with him if we have the precision and discipline to do so.
	www.elrarecords.com /sunra.html (748 words)

	The Solar Metaphor (safnet.com)
		Some metaphors are used to describe many different concepts at the same time, and each culture has her own sets of universal metaphors.
		This paper endeavors to explain the sun as metaphor, to show why it is so important, and to describe some of the fallacies it helps to engender.
		When the metaphor is intended to bring a whole wealth of ideas to bear on the issue at hand, more than just simply comparing two objects, we often call this loaded idea an extended metaphor.
	www.safnet.com /literae/html/solar.html (1787 words)

	Plato's metaphor of the sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plato, in The Republic (507b-509c), uses the sun as a metaphor for the source of "illumination", arguably intellectual illumination, which he held to be The Form of the Good, which is sometimes interpreted as Plato's notion of God.
		The metaphor is about the nature of ultimate reality and how we come to know it.
		This doctrine conveyed by the metaphor of the sun is, incidentally, an excellent example of how, traditionally, the subjects of metaphysics and epistemology have been closely intertwined: accounts of what exists, at a fundamental level, often deeply inform (and are informed by) accounts of ways or kinds of knowing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plato's_metaphor_of_the_sun (592 words)

	Metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Within rhetorical theory metaphor is generally considered to be a direct equation of terms that is more forceful and assertive than an analogy, although the two types of tropes are highly similar and often confused.
		Metaphor and simile are two of the best known tropes and are often mentioned together as examples of rhetorical figures.
		A final difference is that in practice, often-used metaphors can "wear away" into dead metaphors as listeners come to learn metaphorical meanings by rote rather than making sense of seemingly nonsensical assertions, whereas a simile, because it explicitly calls attention to the act of comparison, is not as susceptible to the loss of metaphoricity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metaphor (2303 words)

	Platonic epistemology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Republic, these concepts were illustrated using the metaphor of the sun, the divided line and the allegory of the cave.
		Plato, in The Republic (507b-509c), uses the sun as a metaphor for the source of "intellectual illumination", which he held to be The Form of the Good.
		Such steps follow the same pattern as Plato's metaphor of the sun, his allegory of the cave and his divided line; progress brings one closer and closer to reality as each step explains the relative reality of the past.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Platonic_epistemology (1090 words)

	Pagan Astronomy Network - The Sun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The sun and moon, Utu and Nanna were considered to be two special deities that "saw all" that humans did from their lofty positions in the sky, and who attended their judgment to give witness to each person's deeds.
		It is known that this tale is a metaphor for the sun god Samin and the precessional cycle by which the "old" sun cycle comes to an end with the movement of the celestial pole.
		Circe it was said, a daughter of the sun, lived on the sacred primordial island guarding the a magic cup of the gods, from which "whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine".
	paganastronomy.net /sun.htm (6002 words)

	Metaphor
		Metaphor are incredibly inspired and condense all their skill in the service of this exciting track, close to the masterpieces of Marillion ("Misplaced Childhood") and Genesis ("A Trick of the Tail"), but also comparable to the recent works by Dream Theater.
		Metaphor began at first as a Genesis cover band far back in the last decade, where they undoubtedly became experts in the craft of performing the music of “classic” Genesis, from the so-called Gabriel Era.
		Metaphor has deliberately located itself in the vein of "the seventies" having developed a somewhat softer sound, smooth and deprived of aggressiveness.
	www.metaphor.org /etreviews.html (5937 words)

	THE BOOK OF THE SUN (DE SOLE) MARSILIO FICINO
		Indeed, when conjunct the Sun these planets are at the height of their epicycle, while when they are in opposition to it they are at their lowest, and when in square, at middle altitude.
		For the province of the Sun comprises Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius and Capricorn; the province of the Moon, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer.
		The majority of astronomers place the Sun, at the beginning of the world, on the horizon in Aries which is its kingdom, in the midst of the heaven which it would have occupied like a citadel and capital in the guise of a king.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~alfar2/ficino.htm (8374 words)

	Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: Sun Analyst Conference
		I remember when Sun was the nimble, hungry, competitor that closed the door on DEC, Masscomp, Appollo, etc. Now it seems that the laywers are trying to push Sun in the same direction.
		Customers should be able to use the Sun grid to expand capacity, provide catastrophic failover, and totally migrate to the grid for all Sun produced enterprise software.
		Luckily for Sun the engineers at Simply RISC who developed the S1 version of the T1 processor used to work at STMicroelectronics and may be able to help get a 10 Ghz T3 or T4 chip produced.
	blogs.sun.com /jonathan/entry/sun_analyst_conference (2666 words)

	Feature Story: 2006 JavaOne Conference Recap
		During the four-day conference, Sun made a series of announcements (see sidebar to right), including some significant contributions to the open source community.
		John Gage, Sun's chief researcher and director of the Science Office, also invoked the heads-down/heads-up metaphor.
		Sun Chief Researcher John Gage speaking at a 2006 JavaOne General Session.
	www.sun.com /2006-0523/feature/index.jsp (908 words)

	List of Terms and Definitions
		The metaphor of the Sun, therefore represents your core personality, your essential self, your ego, your sense of personal identity, your inherent focus, your overtly expressed urge to manifest your destiny or importance in life.
		Metaphorically, and as a practical matter, this represents a time of "doing something over" — perhaps multiple times — as described by the energy and concerns of whatever planet is in retrograde.
		Metaphorically, a time of "doing work over" — usually work you thought was already accomplished and complete, but now find is inadequate or wrongly focused to meet some new or expanded need in your life.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/barneyhill/612/Astrology/definitions.htm (2258 words)

	Professor Ron Sun
		Sun is the founding co-editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier), and also serves on the editorial boards of Connection Science, Applied Intelligence, Neural Information Processing--Letters and Reviews, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, and so on.
		Sun and I. Naveh, Social institution, cognition, and survival: A cognitive-social simulation.
		Sun, P. Slusarz, and C. Terry, The interaction of the explicit and the implicit in skill learning: A dual-process approach.
	www.cogsci.rpi.edu /~rsun (3488 words)

	AstrologyNow - Transformational Astrology: The Sun
		SUN IN 1st HOUSE: Life focus on self and personal identity, image, creating images, body and body image, helping others with their image and identity, personal visibility, getting "out there" and being seen for who you really are, confidence, self-expression, promotion.
		Using another compatibility technique, the Composite Chart, the composite Sun represents the merger of two individuals, the third energy that's formed in their coming together, and its sign and house placement are a focal point for the composite or relationship chart.
		"The Sun is honey for all beings, and all beings are honey for this Sun.
	www.astrologynow.com /transsun.htm (3576 words)

	AW!! Yehouah the Sun God 1 - Jewish Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In between the equinoxes, the sun sank to the level of man, the water carrier, at the winter solstice in capricorn, and rose to the lion, Judah, at the summer solstice in Leo.
		The heliacal rising of the sun was seen as the sun killing the bull, as the solar light extinguished the stars of Taurus at dawn.
		The sun god was now killing a ram or a lamb when it rose heliacally at the spring equinox, and they must have had flocks of heavenly sheep.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /judaism/0237SunGod.html (6530 words)

	Allegory of the cave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Not content with mere suggestion, Plato interprets the allegory (beginning at 517b): "This image then [the allegory of the cave] we must apply as a whole to all that has been said" —i.e., it can be used to interpret the preceding several pages, which concern the metaphor of the sun and the divided line.
		The brilliant sun outside the cave represents the Form of the Good, and this passage among others can easily give the impression that Plato regarded this as a creative, independent god.
		Ordinarily we are held captive, viewing mere shadows of particular shapes that are themselves not even the genuine article— which can only be found "outside the cave", in an intelligible world of forms known by reason, not (relatively "dim") perception.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plato's_allegory_of_the_cave (1461 words)

	Morning Sun \| Reviews \| Salon.com
		So "Morning Sun" becomes a sort of a fairy tale, a story of children (Chinese youth and university students) coming under the influence of an all-powerful wizard (Mao), except that in this version the wizard is the good guy.
		The tension playing itself out in "Morning Sun" (the title comes from Mao's dictum that the young are like the morning sun, "the hope of the future") is the tension present in any revolution between inclusion -- the belief that revolution will sweep everyone into supporting it -- and the desire to maintain purity.
		It’s as good a sign as any of how absorbing "Morning Sun" is that the film's sudden ending makes you greedy for more, for the balance of discernment and empathy that is their gift to contemporary documentary filmmaking.
	www.morningsun.org /film/reviews/salon.html (1609 words)

	Sun shines brighter in daring comeback bid / Santa Clara company reclaims No. 3 server spot from Dell, but struggling ...
		Sun Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Schwartz seized on the IDC and Gartner reports about gains in the server market to argue that Sun can no longer be dismissed as a struggling company selling expensive computers that run software that can be used only on Sun machines.
		Sun dominated the server market in the 1990s as big corporations and startups rushed to build their computer networks.
		Sun introduced higher-end business computers based on a new version of its SPARC chip and made the code for its Solaris operating system available for free.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/05/BUGVCKTRS41.DTL&feed=rss.technology (1097 words)

	solar
		Further, while Müller assumed "father" to refer to the sun's role as impregnator, fertilizer, of Mother Earth (a reference that works even better for a "sky" father), it is quite possible that the term was already metaphorical for the god's role as an authority figure.
		Müller's "sun god" is probably an abstraction parallel to the modern Christian "God the Father." The proto-Indo-Europeans did deify the sun, but in figures such as Sol (Germanic), Sulis (Continental Celtic), and Surya (feminine; Sanskrit).
		One critic demonstrated that Max Müller was a sun god by pointing out that his name derived from mill, and a millstone "obviously" was nothing more than a metaphor for the sun.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng480/solar.html (772 words)

	Medicine Garden - The Sun Sign by Carol Willis, MA
		SUN IN 12th HOUSE: Life focus on solitude, inner resources, psychology, spirituality, consciousness, meditative, contemplative and altered states, intuition, initiation, karmic patterns and completions, chronic health conditions, energy medicine, service, liberation.
		By mastering the house where your Sun resides, you're then ready to assume a leadership and mentoring role with regard to the activities of that house.
		The study of astrology is fundamentally a study of the process of creation, a study of what I call your "life-process" in the largest sense of the term, and the details of its manifestation.
	medicinegarden.com /astrology/cw_sun.html (3600 words)

	Buber's Basque Page: On Basque Astronymy: The Sun in Mythology
		One poetic metaphor [+], in which the sun is like an open eye in the immensity of the sky, has given place to various myths, as much in India [+] as in other regions of antiquity.
		As far as Egypt, one of the festivals in honor of the sun is celebrated in the thirtieth day of the epiphi, under the name of ``birthday of the eyes of Horus.'' (Encicl.
		In Vedic mythology the sun is the `eye of the gods', above all of Surya, Mitra, Varuna [+] and Agni.
	www.buber.net /Basque/Astro/node12.html (438 words)

	Mr. Sun!: Metaphor war! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The death of Ronald Reagan tied this up in a bow for me. I now believe there are two great political metaphor "stories" of the modern era: the success of the New Deal and Cold War.
		There is room for traffic back and forth, but these two metaphors represent the political divide that is now described by the "red and blue states." Yes, it's a fault line, but at least it's something to stand across and talk about.
		Sun @ www.MrSun.us and published under a Creative Commons license.
	mrsun.us /2004/07/metaphor-war.html (414 words)

	The Metaphor Analyst (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Lakoff, a linguistics professor at Berkeley, describes himself as a “metaphor analyst.” He briefly captured public attention in 2001 when he applied his interpretive skills to the terrorist attacks of September 11.
		Lakoff, “then schools can, metaphorically, fail — and be punished for failing by having their allowance cut,” leading ultimately to “elimination for many public schools.” The goal, it turns out, is to replace the
		But one suspects that the progressive left will only return from the political wilderness once they step out of their metaphorical world and into the real one.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/12/28&ID=Ar00800 (975 words)

	Elijah and the Sun > Jesus8880
		When the two prophets finally reached the Jordan river, which was known as the river of the rising sun, fifty prophets were watching at a distance as Elijah rolled up his mantle and struck the water of the river.
		A fiery chariot was a well known metaphor for the sun.
		Mark used this theme of being raised by the sun when the three woman who came to his tomb at sunrise found the stone rolled away and a mysterious youth waiting for them who told them that Jesus had been raised.
	www.jesus8880.com /chapters/gematria/elias-249-388.htm (1369 words)

	Thunder gone from Origami (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sun, Feb 26 2006 11:29 PM Unless Microsoft got Digital Kitchen to produce that video and "leak" it so that when they do release something unexpected, they'll get an even bigger reception.
		Sun, Feb 26 2006 11:31 PM i dont think this necessarily steals their thunder.
		Sun, Feb 26 2006 11:44 PM I went to the link and didn't see Origami listed.
	channel9.msdn.com /ShowPost.aspx?PostID=166022 (537 words)

	Music of the Sun
		For it was the awesome power of the Sun that sustained the music through the beat of it's ever-present warmth and light.
		They felt that since they were more cunning than their fellow peoples, that they, and not the sun, should choose not only the beat of the music, but the tune as well.
		The musical metaphor for technology is standard in many cultures, and suggests the feeling that music was identified with magic.
	deoxy.org /sunmusic.htm (1296 words)

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