Why do philosophers rely so much on imagery and metaphors ?

>>9494606
>Why do philosophers rely so much on imagery and metaphors
prove it

>>9494606
Because people need examples and analogy to understand things.

In our next thread: Why doesn't Shakespeare just write You and Me?

>>9494606
>Shouldn't their texts be written using simple grammar and a precise vocabulary, in order to avoid any misunderstandings ?
Philosophers such as Aristotle, Epictetus, and Descartes do this. Perhaps you are confusing mystics and memes such as Nietzsche with philosophers.

>>9494694
Most modern philosophers I've read do it, Voltaire and Diderot for example.


>>9494660
Mathematicians can explain their theories just fine without using examples.

>>9495420
>Most modern philosophers I've read do it, Voltaire and Diderot for example.

They're not systematic enough for us to claim the necessity of a dry, more formal language. In their writings it makes sense to use metaphors and imagery to frame in a more abstract but still clear way your concepts and worldviews. It would not make sense in Quine, but Quine is still doing a very different thing.

>>9494606
NP vs NJ dichotomy. NPs will use more systematic, objective, clear discourse. NJs will have trouble describing their chaotic thoughts clearly so they use dynamic images of metaphors to force the feeling out of their soul.

>>9494660
>he doesn't know that "thou" was the informal second person pronoun in Early Modern English
>he doesn't know what the royal plural is