Tags: imaginary numbers
Categories: Comparisons
An example of metphor used in discussing science:
"Leibniz himself often betrayed an agnosticism about imaginary numbers that was generally alien to him and contrary to the spirit of his philosophy; for he once designated them as an extraordinary hybrid, 'an amphibian between being and nonbeing'."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quoted by Ernst Cassirer
Cassirer, E. (1950/1978). The Problem of Knowledge. Philosophy, Science, and History since Hegel (W. H. Woglom & C. W. Hendel, Trans.). Yale University Press.
