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  • <font color="darkblue">''The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.''< ...3) edition...the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contem
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  • ...xample of how metaphor interpretations can differ. In this case, Darwin's metaphor, "struggle for existence". * Gibbs RW Jr. (ed.) (2008) ''The Cambridge Handbook Metaphor and Thought''. Twenty-Eight Chapters. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-
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  • ==George Eliot speaks to Aristotle about metaphor== ...g ploughed and harrowed by these patent implements; it was his favorite <b>metaphor</b>, that the classics and geometry constituted that culture of the mind wh
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  • *{{cite web |url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16068 |title=Metaphor |accessdate=2009-03-30 |last=Barfield |first=Owen |authorlink= |coauthors= *[http://mind.textdriven.com/about The Mind is a Metaphor Blog.] "Treated herein are select metaphors of mind from British eighteenth
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  • *{{cite web |url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16068 |title=Metaphor |accessdate=2009-03-30 |last=Barfield |first=Owen |authorlink= |coauthors= *[http://mind.textdriven.com/about The Mind is a Metaphor Blog.] "Treated herein are select metaphors of mind from British eighteenth
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  • ...xample of how metaphor interpretations can differ. In this case, Darwin's metaphor, "struggle for existence". * Gibbs RW Jr. (ed.) (2008) ''The Cambridge Handbook Metaphor and Thought''. Twenty-Eight Chapters. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-
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  • ...is a collection of numerous formative articles in the fields of conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration.
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  • * Yi-Li Wu. ''Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China.'' Berkeley: Univ. of California Pre
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  • * Grady, Oakley, and Coulson (1999). "Blending and Metaphor". In ''Metaphor in cognitive linguistics'', Steen and Gibbs (eds.). Philadelphia: John Benj * Feldman JA. (2006) ''From molecule to metaphor: a neural theory of language.'' Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 026206253
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  • A [[metaphor]], often used in [[literature]] and [[poetry]] and [[creative writing]], in
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  • ==George Eliot speaks to Aristotle about metaphor== ...g ploughed and harrowed by these patent implements; it was his favorite <b>metaphor</b>, that the classics and geometry constituted that culture of the mind wh
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  • * Young, Robert M. (1985) ''Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture'', [[Cambridge]]: Cambridge University
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  • ...Elizabethan Era|Elizabethan times]], however, it was a widely-recognised [[metaphor]] that the stages of human life are like the acts of a play.
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  • ...uing truth, such as preferring speech over writing or logical concept over metaphor, Derrida expounds his own philosophical position regarding the status of tr For Derrida, all concepts are inextricably bound up with metaphor. Any concept that understands an aspect of some thing about or in the world
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  • ...'s inverted reflection in a dark pool beneath. Colonel Vann thus becomes a metaphor for America - the righteous, naive, can-do America that divided the world n | title =Books of The Times; One Man as an American Metaphor in Vietnam
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  • ...e based solely on appearance. In modern parlance, an 'ugly duckling' is a metaphor for someone who unattractive, a bit 'different', or whose true worth is not
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  • ...s, and provide the basis for evaluating the validity of analyses. The root metaphor of contextualism is the "act in context," whereby any event is interpreted ...c world view. This is because the analytic tools of contextualism—its root metaphor and truth criterion—both hinge on the purpose of the analysis, and neithe
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  • *Jerry Weist, ''Bradbury, an Illustrated Life: A Journey to Far Metaphor'', [[William Morrow and Company|William Morrow & Company]] (2002). Hardcove
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  • ...are recognized as key concepts in Cognitive Linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces, etc. A second set Aspects of language studied include, meaning (semantics), metaphor, grammar, and many other aspects of the language facility as it relates to
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  • ** ZMET ([[Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique]])
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  • ...taking pulses at the wrists.<ref>Yi-Li Wu, ''Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China'' (Berkeley: Univ. of California Pre Many people deny qi on scientific grounds (or see it as a metaphor rather than a real force), pointing to the better explanations given by sci
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  • "Slavery" is often used as a metaphor for total political domination by outsiders, or for forced labor under hars ==Metaphor==
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  • The use of symbolism in poetry is usually in the form of a [[simile]] or a [[metaphor]], although there are other elements of literature that can be employed to
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  • ...imals or mythical personages. It is sometimes explained as an "extended [[metaphor]]". The term is also used to refer to those literary works with an allegor
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  • ...cribe the different histories combined in individual genomes and use [the] metaphor of a net to visualize the rich exchange and cooperative effects of HGT amon
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  • ...style. In his early career his poems contain extensive [[lyric]]ism and [[metaphor]]s.
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  • ==Metaphor== ...le of public health officials handling an infectious disease). The medical metaphor extended beyond the immediate aims of the Truman Doctrine in that the image
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  • ===Which metaphor: tree, a net, cobweb, or ring?=== ...cribe the different histories combined in individual genomes and use [the] metaphor of a net to visualize the rich exchange and cooperative effects of HGT amon
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  • ...ada. Theoret is a [[political scientist]], and his book uses poutine as a metaphor to discuss Quebec's role in Canada.
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  • ...le suppose this letter was written by Peter from Rome, and so Babylon is a metaphor for Rome.
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  • ...lore; rather, it is derived from "trolling", a method of fishing, and is a metaphor for attempting to "catch" unsuspecting readers.<ref> The on-line hacker Jar
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  • <font color="darkblue">''The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.''< ...3) edition...the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contem
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  • ...ce. The re-creation of stories is often non-naturalistic; actors often use metaphor, narration, chorus, genre, movement and song.
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  • The term ''Trojan horse'' became a common metaphor, and has passed into [[computer]] terminology to describe [[malware]] which
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  • Using that metaphor, many theoretical biologists could qualify as magicians.
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  • In the 'building metaphor' used by Descartes, our opinions and thoughts are the ground upon which ou *[http://www.articlemyriad.com/77.htm Article on the building metaphor in ''Discourse on the Method'']
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  • ...ain bases of online lexical access to discourse processing, from memory to metaphor. This type of mix is typical of our field today: to be a player, one must h
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  • * Anderson, Karrin Vasby. "Hillary Rodham Clinton as 'Madonna': The Role of Metaphor and Oxymoron in Image Restoration". ''Women's Studies in Communication'',
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  • ...seem to be as compelling a human phenomenon as ever—both as ritual and as metaphor. == Pilgrimage as metaphor ==
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  • ...<ref>Vainikka & Young-Scholten (1994; 1996; 1998).</ref> where 'tree' is a metaphor of syntax for the branching structure showing how words of a [[phrase]] or
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  • ...novels and short stories, White developed his idea of the small town as a metaphor for understanding social change and for preaching the necessity of communit
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  • ...nt&mdash;though certainly not the only&mdash;source of this transformative metaphor, as well as the term "New Age," was Theosophy, particularly ... by the work
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  • ...ative way, such as [[entropy]]. The expression “information quantity” is a metaphor without any physical or numerical property. The information isolated from a
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  • ...life, [[Toronto]] repertory cinema [[Paradise Theatre]] of the title is a metaphor for the film's renewed romance.]]
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  • ...remise, but in the hands of Montreal’s Sherwin Sullivan Tjia, it becomes a metaphor for life and a way to explore the human condition.
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  • ...he piece serves as an allegorical criticism of church and state, using the metaphor of a donkey becoming the ruler of his master's house upon a kind whim from
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  • *** [http://plas.fit.qut.edu.au/metaphor/ Metaphor] (Gregory Neverov at Queensland University of Technology)
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  • :''Would be more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor."
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  • ...o convince the reader, in the course of the present work, that the machine metaphor is not just a little bit wrong; it is entirely wrong and must be discarded.
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  • ...d but Meade's dilatory pursuit allowed Lee to escape. The battle became a metaphor for the entire war, and a central icon of courage on both sides. It was use
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  • Originally proposed by [[Leigh Van Valen]] (1973), the metaphor of an [[evolutionary arms race]] has been found appropriate for the descrip
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  • Since that time, the commons as a metaphor for collective resources has been applied to a wide variety of collective c
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  • ...John, and J. Nicholas Entrikin, eds. ''The Marshall Plan Today: Model and Metaphor.'' (2004), 274pp; essays by economic historians; [http://www.questia.com/PM
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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
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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
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  • The genre originally involved females, and was also called "cheesecake" as a metaphor for something sweet. With increasing acceptance of female sexuality, the su
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  • * Lewis, Merrill. "Organic Metaphor and Edenic Myth in George Bancroft's ''History of the United States''." ''J
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  • ===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
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  • Company towns are closely associated with the metaphor of "the company" as a presence in workers' lives even in their non-work, le
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  • ...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
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  • ...lay. The actor is the primary means by which we experience the theatrical metaphor." (Robert Corrigan)
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  • ...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
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  • ...ther aided the resolution of the Americans to be free. See Lewis, "Organic Metaphor", and Vitzthum, "Theme and Method".</ref>
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  • ...exponential growth, there are no singularities. The singularity here is a metaphor.).
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  • The Western use of the harem as a metaphor for aspects of Western life appears as early as 1721, in Baron de Montesqui
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  • ...] questions the very concept of 'addiction.' He argues that addiction is a metaphor, and that the only reason to make the distinction between habit and addicti
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  • *Sternberg, R.J.(1990). The geographic metaphor. In R.J. Sternberg, Metaphors of mind: Conceptions of the nature of intelli
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  • Go strategy is also studied as an metaphor for Asian strategy compared to western strategy.
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  • ...[[deduction]] and [[quasi-empirical methods]], and invoke key [[conceptual metaphor]]s to work observations into a coherent, self-consistent structure. ...n science]] have also made contributions, e.g., the [[Scientific Community Metaphor]].
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  • The medical model also assumes a defect in the person. A metaphor might be made to a computer with hardware that functions perfectly, but sof ...lem, considering that his brain matter has no defect in itself. A medical metaphor could be treating the foot for gout, when the problem is actually in the ki
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  • *Silverlight provides a familiar web metaphor for designers and developers by embedding XAML directly into [[HTML]] pages
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  • ...ly due to the language. As a result, the entire passage is understood as a metaphor. Therefore, they do not put up [[mezuzah|mezuzot]], although many Karaites
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  • ...uction of the printing press marked a move from the medieval language of [[metaphor]]s to the adoption of the [[scientific method]].
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  • ...t on Jewry is in a 16 September 1919 letter, in which he used a biological metaphor, "racial tuberculosis", and rejected "antisemitism on purely emotional grou ...ently recalling the heroic cancer treatment of his mother, he used it as a metaphor for foreign policy.<blockquote>If a man appears to have cancer and is uncon
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  • ...e cultural importance of 'bread' goes beyond slang, however, to serve as a metaphor for basic necessities and living conditions in general. ...mplest, cheapest and most basic type of food, bread is often referred as a metaphor for "food" in general, in some languages and dialects, such as [[Greek lang
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  • ...'quoted on'' p. 188</ref> Were we to use a Japanese rather than an English metaphor, we might speak of "men without bellies", as the spirit of the martial arti
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  • ...andra Alverez, "Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream': The Speech Event as Metaphor," ''Journal of Black Studies'' 3 (1998):337–57</ref> President [[Lyndon J
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  • ...However, it is clear from his elevation of the ‘Form of the Good’, and his metaphor of the Cave (both in the ''Republic'') that ethics is the central concern t
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  • Bourdieu’s concept of “habitus” uses the concept of the body as a 'social metaphor' of a person’s status. A thin and slender body is likely to be more socia
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  • ...tives are fairly literal, while others rely heavily on [[symbolism]] and [[metaphor]] to convey their meaning. Many narratives are expressed in [[painting]] an
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  • ...s, and involves a more densely interconnected arrangement of imagery and [[metaphor]]. In [[Old English]] poetry, as in the earliest [[Latin]] verse, a fixed p
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  • ...dition was that one did not "join" the Marines. One "became" a Marine. The metaphor of steel being heated in a crucible and hammered into a sword runs through
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  • ...posed of many books; a book is of one scroll. It is called codex by way of metaphor from the trunks (''codex'') of trees or vines, as if it were a wooden stock
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  • ...s, and involves a more densely interconnected arrangement of imagery and [[metaphor]]. In [[Old English]] poetry, as in the earliest [[Latin]] verse, a fixed p
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  • ...urt image to replace the invalid one], [[Drinking game]], [[Cyberpunk]], [[Metaphor]], [[Simile]], attempted [[Fun]], [[Romeo_and_Juliet]], edited [[Frustratio
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  • ...k record" in assessing the terrorist threat and that he rejected the "war" metaphor for counterterrorism, comparing it instead to "the effort by public health
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  • ...the moving electrons glue the nuclei together, whence the brick and mortar metaphor.
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  • ...adness: Explaining How Psychiatry Is a Clinical Construct and Madness Is a Metaphor'' | publisher = Chipmunkapublishing | date = 2003 | pages = 460 | id = 0954
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  • ...epts is minimal and conceptually impoverished. All the richness comes from metaphor. For instance, we have two mutually incompatible metaphors for time, both o ...t, and memory. It portrays learners as active processors of information--a metaphor borrowed from the computer world--and assigns critical roles to the knowled
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  • ..., but Meade's dilatory pursuit allowed Lee to escape. The battle became a metaphor for the entire war, and a central icon of courage on both sides. It was use
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  • ...ealthy philanthropists favored buildings that reinforced the paternalistic metaphor and enhanced civic pride. They wanted a grandiose showcase that created a g
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  • ...how lineages are related to one another. Thus the 'tree' is still a valid metaphor for microbial evolution - but a tree adorned with 'cobwebs' of horizontally
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  • ...ion:</u></b> Everyone uses metaphors to understand the world. The dominant metaphor for the body has been a machine. Disease has been viewed as a defect arisin
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  • ...for [[CSICOP]], some Chinese scientists maintain that qi is still a useful metaphor, and the concepts of Yin and Yang parallel scientific notions of endocrinol
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  • 82. Hoenigswald, H. M. & Wiener, L. S. 1987. Biological Metaphor and Cladistics Classification. Francis Pinter Publishers.
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  • ...have mostly abandoned the 'pinched garden hose theory', some still use the metaphor to explain the concept of subluxations to their patients. Today, chiropract Others argue that these concepts remain useful as [[metaphor]]s for physiological processes that are poorly understood, and because they
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  • ...how lineages are related to one another. Thus the 'tree' is still a valid metaphor for microbial evolution - but a tree adorned with 'cobwebs' of horizontally
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  • ...rt Thurman]] is an author who finds that science fiction provides a likely metaphor to describe the ""multi-dimensional universe of infinite possibility" inher
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  • ...rent, or future events, and whether certain parts should be interpreted as metaphor or literal event.
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  • ...time, it is considered a suitable material for everyday wear as well as a metaphor for the relationship. In [[Orthodox Christianity]], the wedded couple is ad
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  • * Medhurst, Martin J. ''Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology'' Michigan State University Press, 1997 [http://www.questia.c
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  • ...is used to describe the biological viruses discussed above and also as a metaphor for other parasitically-reproducing things, such as [[meme]]s or [[computer
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  • ...ealthy philanthropists favored buildings that reinforced the paternalistic metaphor and enhanced civic pride. They wanted a grandiose showcase that created a g
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  • ...ealthy philanthropists favored buildings that reinforced the paternalistic metaphor and enhanced civic pride. They wanted a grandiose showcase that created a g
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  • ...redictable events that ensue when a bolide strikes the earth, is an ironic metaphor for bolide influence on earth’s history.</ref>
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  • ...o decide whose career should come first<ref>TB p71</ref>. He used the same metaphor when describing their later, and more strained, relationship; "like some qu
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  • Although the above examples suggest an indictment of metaphor as a foible of public participation in shaping reality, public engagement i
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  • * Patel, Sujata & Thorner, Alice; ''Bombay, Metaphor for Modern India'' (1995) &mdash; [[Oxford University Press]] ISBN 0-19-563
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  • In America the term “Marshall Plan” became a metaphor used to describe a proposed very expensive government program to solve a ma
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  • ...in software when that is true. Shall I live dangerously and try a genetic metaphor: C expresses in the presence of both?
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  • ...velling around the world, and are expressed through a [[Paranoia|monster]] metaphor. "[[Bad Romance]]" was released as the first single from the album. It topp
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  • ...rican Queen" (1951), based on a true story of the war in East Africa, is a metaphor of how the British moralists (Katharine Hepburn) converted the indifferent,
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  • The term here, 'heavy metal', is a metaphor for addictive drugs. Another aspect of these novels is the use of recorded
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  • Jenkins calls this "a brilliant metaphor" but wonders if it was spontaneous.<ref>Jenkins 2001, p. 580.</ref> It prod
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  • ...Tutu]] and later elaborated upon by then-President [[Nelson Mandela]] as a metaphor for the country's emergent multicultural diversity in the wake of apartheid
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  • ...y more argument that he was a nationalist first and a Marxist second. The metaphor that he was the "Tito of Vietnam" was often used. Some authors insist that
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  • ::: "[T]he incorrect metaphor of the body as a machine can now be replaced with an evolutionary view of t
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  • ...have mostly abandoned the 'pinched garden hose theory', some still use the metaphor to explain the concept of subluxations to their patients. Today, chiropract
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  • ...-organized autonomy, we humans can electrically generate words shaped in [[metaphor]]s that attempt to explain the very activity of living that enables that fe |<center>From Molecule to Metaphor<br>
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  • Moreover, chess is often depicted in the [[arts]], used for example as a [[metaphor]] of a struggle of two, as a [[symbol]] of cold logic, or - in the spirit o
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  • ..., in particular, work directly under the U.S. government and are used as a metaphor for U.S. military and political power. The [[Savage Dragon]] is virtually u
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  • '''''From Molecule to Metaphor'''''<br> ...re.html “Nature’s Gift to Science”]</ref> expressed the 'computing device' metaphor this way:
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  • ...sthetic, an artistic expression with religious and funery aspects and as a metaphor for Babur's ability to control the arid Indian planes and hence the country
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  • ...al divine principle. The Mutazilites also viewed many Qur'ān passages as [[metaphor|metaphorical]], especially those referring to God having a face, talking, w
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  • ...10.1126/science.284.5411.92 284:92-6] PMID 10102825</ref> Models provide [[metaphor]]s for explanation of systems, powerful metaphors with remarkable potential
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  • ...om the station of an ordinary human being. The trinity is seen as a useful metaphor for understanding God, but not as a literal description of the nature of Go
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