One can go back through old threads and see just how outraged and indignant some are at the descriptions used to convey what we hear. Complaints of over the top language and hyperbole are disparaged with the heat of a thousand suns.
Could it be that that is the latent underpinnings of the refusals to accept what is described? Can objectivists be so limited that anything other than a measurement can set them off? Think back on the movie, Contact, when Jodi Foster's character (a scientist who relies on measurements) tries to describe a beautiful celestial event and fails, and then goes onto to say, "They should have sent a poet."
Consider also, the movie, Arrival, where the more a linguist learns an alien language, the more she begins to think and process like one. We all see and hear things somewhat differently depending on our own life experiences and how we're wired. Some just resist too hard.
All the best,
Nonoise
Could it be that that is the latent underpinnings of the refusals to accept what is described? Can objectivists be so limited that anything other than a measurement can set them off? Think back on the movie, Contact, when Jodi Foster's character (a scientist who relies on measurements) tries to describe a beautiful celestial event and fails, and then goes onto to say, "They should have sent a poet."
Consider also, the movie, Arrival, where the more a linguist learns an alien language, the more she begins to think and process like one. We all see and hear things somewhat differently depending on our own life experiences and how we're wired. Some just resist too hard.
All the best,
Nonoise