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The people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true.
~Lakoff & Johnson
Metaphors are interpreters—what interpreters do for bits and bytes, metaphors do for reality. They translate physical experiences into thoughts, ideas, insights and lessons that can be interpreted and understood, acted upon and shared.
A metaphor is formed when two aspects of the world become linked together in a meaningful way. For example, we talk of a stormy meeting. We take the turmoil and chaos of a storm and make correspondences with the turmoil and chaos of a conflicted meeting.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Analogies are a poverty of language
Anthea often uses metaphors to develop and convey new conceptualizations. This approach is in keeping with studies about the significant role of metaphorical thinking in creative intellectual processes in science and beyond. In Clash of Paradigms: Actors and Analogies Shaping the Investment Treaty System, for instance, she likened the system to a p... See more