various dimensions (participants, parts, stages, etc.) are categories that emerge naturally from our experience.

From the experientialist perspective, metaphor is a matter of imaginative rationality.

CONSCIOUS IS UP; UNCONSIOUS IS DOWN

LIFE IS A GAMBLING GAME

Similarities may be similarities with respect to a metaphor.

from which the object—namely, the statue—emerges.

Quantifying

The very systematicity that allows us to comprehend one aspect of a concept in terms of another

Moreover, the metaphor, by virtue of giving coherent structure to a range of our experiences, creates similarities of a new kind.