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- GOP Rep.: Border Wall Is A ‘Metaphor,’ ‘No One’ Believed Mexico Would Pay (Video) http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/francis-rooney-no-one-thought-mexico-would-pay 29 comments politics
- The meaning crisis and language II — We need to ‘believe’ myth and metaphor in order to understand ourselves https://medium.com/@doyouthinkihaveforgotten/the-meaning-crisis-and-language-ii-do-we-need-to-believe-myth-and-metaphor-in-order-to-6544c07f826d 75 comments philosophy
- The meaning crisis and language - how our inability to ‘believe’ myth and metaphor has left us unable to understand ourselves https://medium.com/@doyouthinkihaveforgotten/the-meaning-crisis-and-language-bf7200daf682 185 comments philosophy
- David Livingstone Smith argues that when we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: we believe our enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. To call someone a monster, then, is not merely a resort to metaphor. https://youtu.be/9o1My23z68E 43 comments philosophy
- The US is on the brink of a new growth cycle. It’s time to swap the metaphor of the soft landing for a new term: economic acceleration. There are reasons to believe the US economy is primed to deliver robust and durable growth over the longer term. https://www.ft.com/content/8774542d-6631-46cf-b8b0-059c821b751d 24 comments economy
- 'War on cancer' metaphors may do harm, research shows - Framing cancer in military terms made treatment seem more difficult and left people feeling more fatalistic about the illness, believing there was little they could do to reduce their risk, researchers found. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/10/war-cancer-metaphors-harm-research-shows 15 comments worldnews
- Strongly influenced by his father (a scientist), he believes that realistic paintings show the artist's professional skill and draw the viewer in so that they accept the impossible images enough to see the metaphors in them and explore the different layers of meaning. [pics] http://ihajcsuhajj.blogspot.com/2009/04/vladimir-kush.html 3 comments science
- Strongly influenced by his father (a scientist), he believes that realistic paintings show the artist's professional skill and draw the viewer in so that they accept the impossible images enough to see the metaphors in them and explore the different layers of meaning. [pics] http://ihajcsuhajj.blogspot.com/2009/04/vladimir-kush.html 50 comments reddit.com