Points to Remember from Miracles

Page 115, Miracles by C.S. Lewis - "Horrid Red Things" 1. "Thought is distinct from the imagination that accompanies it." - This means when we think about something, like the United States, our imagination might dream up an American flag, or a many colored map, but that isn't what we really believe the U.S. is. 2. "That thought may be in the main sound even when the false images that accompany it are mistaken by the thinker for true ones." - A child might say that the blue state is close to the red state, when looking at the map of the U.S., and that child would be right, if the blue state is meant to be Michigan, and the red state is Ohio. But of course, Michigan is no more blue than Ohio. 3. "That anyone who talks about things that cannot be seen, or touched, or heard, ot the like, must inevitably talk as if they could be seen or touched or heard." - We can't talk about "supersensible" things without using metaphors of some kind. Information doesn't really spread, but how else can we talk of rumors? Networks aren't actually being impeded in their motion when we say they are "bogged down". We use metaphors because they help us make sense of concepts that we cannot sense with our 5 senses.