Zimmerman, GWRIT 103 In the world of knowledge, the idea of good
appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort… It is this
way with all of us concerning language: we believe that we know
something about the things themselves when we speak of trees,
colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but
metaphors for things – metaphors which correspond in no way to
the original entities…What then is truth? Truths are illusions
which we have forgotten are illusions; they are metaphors that
have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force,
coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as
metal and no longer as coins. The consumer is content to receive
an experience just as it has been presented to him by theorists
and planners….It is only the hardiest and cleverest of students
who can salvage [it] from [the] package. It is only the rarest
of students who knows that [it] must be salvaged from the
package. We have examined Plato’s Allegory of the Cave; we have
wrestled with Nie