[luckyme]

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In my view a metaphor in general serves to point toward the truth rather than represent a factoid of truth. We can see this even in the metaphors of science, commonly called scientific theories. The actual facts of science are records of experimental results. Scientific metaphors/theories are designed to fit those results and predict new ones. But the scientific metaphors/theories are not themselves facts of reality. The underlying ultimate reality of existence remains a mystery to us. Nevertheless, the scientific metaphors/theories serve us as pointers to the truth.

So it is with metaphysical metaphors.

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"so it is .." seems merely slight of hand.

Your perception of the role of scientific theory and fact seem inverted to me. Facts don't exist outside of a theory, so theory is not a metaphor for the facts. Theory is the only reality we have.
Scientific theories only point us to the truth in the sense that they steer us from a disordered, unpredictable view of reality. Fact and theory are rubbed against each other.

Metaphysical metaphors don't have that fact-rubbing property so there is no reason for thinking they're in the same compass quadrant as 'truth'. They fill the role of 'here be dragons'. They are mental hugs and security blankets and can never be anything but that.

luckyme