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[[Image:OZ5-2-94.jpg|thumb|300px|Cyclone as metaphor for political revolution; the Aunt-Em-type farm woman is labeled 'Democrati *The cyclone was used in the 1890s as a metaphor for a political revolution that would transform the drab country into a lan

The paragraph below is contradictory--how can it be a better metaphor if it's not used or understood? ...ch is not a term used in contemporary science or medicine) may be a better metaphor than vaccination for homeopathic treatment. Mithridatization is the chronic

...but I am very skeptical that a work by an EX-communist using a biological metaphor popularized by, among others, Thomas Huxley and the sociologist Herbert Spe

...l way, social system design focuses on understanding, by means of analogy, metaphor, criticism and evaulation to form patterns, conjectures and models as a sub ...pts and principles that portray the behavior of a system through time. Its metaphor is the “motion-picture” of “movie” of the system.

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...ain contexts, it is revealed to stand for something else: it may then be a metaphor for a snowflake. By contrast, an actual impossibility is postulated in a si

The genre originally involved females, and was also called "cheesecake" as a metaphor for something sweet. With increasing acceptance of female sexuality, the su

...e solved”. Scientists worship at the altar of peer review, and I use that metaphor deliberately because it is rarely if ever questioned. Somehow the process o

* Lewis, Merrill. "Organic Metaphor and Edenic Myth in George Bancroft's ''History of the United States''." ''J

===Computers metaphor=== ...rstand one conceptual domain in terms of another. For example, the desktop metaphor treats the monitor of a computer as if it is the user's desktop, which help

Company towns are closely associated with the metaphor of "the company" as a presence in workers' lives even in their non-work, le

...l scheme."<ref name=Thomasson/> This view is known as the 'cookie-cutter' metaphor: the world is like dough, and concepts are like cookie cutters, carving coo

...lay. The actor is the primary means by which we experience the theatrical metaphor." (Robert Corrigan)

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:I think if we could go ahead and continue the metaphor of black and white. Consider that it is a battle between good and evil. Th

...rs]] and [[BBC Radio]]'s “Goon Show.”) Ingeniously, by employing jazz as a metaphor, Gilad delivers a completely original and scathing indictment of Zionism an

...ther aided the resolution of the Americans to be free. See Lewis, "Organic Metaphor", and Vitzthum, "Theme and Method".</ref>

...exponential growth, there are no singularities. The singularity here is a metaphor.).

The Western use of the harem as a metaphor for aspects of Western life appears as early as 1721, in Baron de Montesqui

...d perhaps it might help here. As a guess, what might be closer to a visual metaphor for AJAX might be some of the levels of abstraction in multiple, nested "ne