One familiar definition of a metaphor is that it is essentially a figure of speech which uses one thing to mean another by ...

But the word “lies” is also a metaphor, because it metaphorically locates the abstract act of belt tightening (budget cutting) in physical space. “Belt tightening” is a conventional ...

Without memory we lose our sense of identity, reasoning, even our ability to perform simple physical tasks. Yet it is elusive and difficult to define, and throughout the ages philosophers and ...