This is the mathematics of metaphor.

Skeptics have pointed to the limits of Friedman s metaphor.

James Geary, metaphorically speaking

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Metaphors aren't meant to be taken literally.

Metaphors, it turns out, are not just words.

The metaphors and the administrations have changed, but not, it seems, the optimism.

But another step in metaphor building is needed to encapsulate the idea of economic inclusion.

And this is not in some abstract metaphorical sense.

Good metaphors are those that set off the right intuitive connections in our brains.

Now it's really hard to think about anything abstract like this without a good concrete metaphor.

And this explains the extraordinary resonance of this simple metaphor conjured up nearly 400 years ago.

To switch animal metaphors, it is a watchdog without teeth.

We can escape it only if we Americans repudiate the war on terror as a false metaphor.

Vojislav Šešelj, a Serbian far right politician who currently sits in opposition, tweeted, using metaphors from vampire folklore

The metaphor of war was understandable in the aftermath of the 2001 attacks, but creates as many problems as it solves.

And in convincing yourself that this metaphor is true, there are lots of similarities between genetic programs and computer programs that could help to convince you.

And metaphor keeps the mind shaking, rattling and rolling, long after Elvis has left the building.

Sharply divisive official rhetoric and the evocation of war imagery by state owned media certainly played a role.

BRUSSELS The metaphors used during the financial crisis of 2008 2009 earthquake, tsunami, meltdown, black swan, and fallout are back with a vengeance, but now they are being recycled literally.

BRUSSELS The metaphors used during the financial crisis of 2008 2009 earthquake, tsunami, meltdown, black swan, and fallout are back with a vengeance, but now they are being recycled literally.

If we take this metaphor at face value, there is a surprising consequence.

If we take this metaphor at face value, there is a surprising consequence. It has been shown that, the outcome of some computer programs is at once entirely deterministic, innovative, and unpredictable.

But Murray Gell Mann yesterday talked about emergent properties another name for them could be architecture as a metaphor for taking the same old material and thinking about non obvious, non simple ways of combining it.

Formulating a good metaphor for Obama s second term is itself a task for intuitive creative thought that entails rethinking what he will propose in his second term.

Formulating a good metaphor for Obama s second term is itself a task for intuitive creative thought that entails rethinking what he will propose in his second term.

The attraction of this metaphor may be attributable to the excessive trust that Americans place not only in their army, which is understandable, but in force in general, which is much less understandable in the case of an intelligent people.

How do you prevent either the media's interpretation of your work or the scientific community's interpretation of the implications of your work, kind of like the Mozart metaphor, where, Oh, MRIs show that play enhances your intelligence.

Qadri addressed the marchers repeatedly liberally mixing political metaphors, he called himself a latter day Mao Zedong on a journey to launch a system cleansing jihad and initiate a Pakistani version of the Arab Spring.

Paul used the human body (corpus in Latin) as a metaphor for society, suggesting that in a healthy society, as in a healthy body, every organ must be preserved and none permitted to die.

It's a primitive form of abstraction, and we now know this happens in the fusiform gyrus of the brain, because when that's damaged, these people lose the ability to engage in Buba Kiki, but they also lose the ability to engage in metaphor.