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

Well into Advent, well into the run-up to Christmas, the lawns in town and the ranchers’ pastures that stretched across the prairie to the east were bare, uncovered in their winter poverty. Naked in ...

“Wear the team uniform” is a metaphor. It is more than clothes.

6 Wiland chooses to examine Judith Thomson’s 7 well known and controversial analogy that attempts to draw a morally relevant comparison between abortion and an imaginary case involving an unconscious ...

Artificial intelligence tunes the cognitive equation: less resistance, same intellectual mass, and greater momentum for ...

This metaphor resonates not only in romantic relationships but also in friendships. For example, you may find that the golden retriever friend is always reaching out, wanting to bring everyone ...

Is he confident now that he made the right decision, or is he only imagining that he will one day — “ages and ages hence” — ...

The text indicates that Jacob meets two camps of angels—one set of angels that accompanied him outside the Holy Land and ...

About four million common murres were killed by a domino effect of ecosystem changes, and the population is showing no signs of recovery, according to new research. By Catrin Einhorn Chris ...

Type D—the D stands for “distressed”—is described as a combination of being inhibited in social situations and tending to experience negative emotions. The concept of Type D is distinct ...

Tallis in Wonderland “I refute it thus” Raymond Tallis kicks immaterialism into touch. Readers may be familiar with Bishop ...