"What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphism -- inshort, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins." - Friedrich Nietzsche (The Viking Portable Nietzsche)

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Here you will find ways that the metaphor can be used in a practical environment--in other words, the metaphor in action, and not just in discourse.
(The icons represent the types of real-world contexts in which the metaphor is used. Click on them)
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