You can boil down pretty much everything to "an accumulated edifice of metaphors designed by human brains, for human brains".
In the game Hearts, if you take most of the spades you lose. However, if you manage to take all the spades you win, and they call it "shooting the moon".
In a similar fashion, when you reject everything as an unreal system of metaphors, Platonism "shoots the moon" by having us reexamine what we thought we meant by "real" in the first place.
In the game Hearts, if you take most of the spades you lose. However, if you manage to take all the spades you win, and they call it "shooting the moon".
In a similar fashion, when you reject everything as an unreal system of metaphors, Platonism "shoots the moon" by having us reexamine what we thought we meant by "real" in the first place.