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Re:How to Be a Systems Thinker by letlambda on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:23AM (#16836030)
>I suspect that metaphors are the tools of cargo cults while analogies are the tools used by those that actually understand a system in order to convey it to those that do not.

Are the metaphors actual tools, or more like metaphorical tools?

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Re:How to Be a Systems Thinker by fallous on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:40AM (#16836074)
Crappy tools are still tools.
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Re:How to Be a Systems Thinker by letlambda on Saturday April 14, 2018 @02:56AM (#16836253)
It's a metaphor, metaphors aren't literally physical work implements.
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Re:How to Be a Systems Thinker by fallous on Saturday April 14, 2018 @03:07AM (#16836277)
And tools are not limited to physical implements.
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Re:How to Be a Systems Thinker by letlambda on Saturday April 14, 2018 @11:13AM (#16837640)
They aren't, we can easily extend the concept by using it as metaphor.
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