In relation to making,

The figurative meaning is no longer in current use.

You're speaking figuratively.

A simple idea, but it could have such far reaching consequences.

An additional twist is that all of the constructions in English are used not only literally, but in a quasi metaphorical way.

Sexually unattractive people leave us cold.

literally one who talks to birds.

Friends, the road itself is amongst our oldest tropes.

You have to measure its specific gravity, OK?

It's a Sufi parable.

Comparing them makes no sense anyway

And the tourist brochures pointed me in the direction of this bridge

Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent.

Those are called similes.

Somebody's trying to defend people moving into the field.

I think that's false.

In this, Elvis is following Aristotle's classic definition of metaphor as the process of giving the thing a name that belongs to something else.

Pay careful attention the next time you read the financial news.

Glamour was a literal magic spell.

(Laughter)

Let's make it about the content not about the chrome as they call it.

located at the edges.

I think you meant it as a metaphor.

Not in a conventional sense.

I met my wet sand.

(Laughter)

(Laughter)

Art can change the way we see the world.

At that moment I became part of that biosphere.

So bridging that somehow.

We use them metaphorically the DNA of a company, the metabolism of a city, and so on is that just bullshit, metaphorical bullshit, or is there serious substance to it?

That means the system cannot be dead, in a matter of fact.

But before it was fossil poetry

Sadly, it's metaphorically true.

That's how many people operate.

At least not in the traditional sense.

But the beauty of it is that it's just silk and sticks.

And they had those expectations because agent metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal.

And one of the problems that we face, I think, is that the only people that have cornered the market in terms of progress is a financial definition of what progress is, an economic definition of what progress is that somehow, if we get the right numbers to go up, we're going to be better off, whether that's on the stock market, whether that's with GDP and economic growth, that somehow life is going to get better.

Just as we cannot ignore the literal meaning of words, we cannot ignore the analogies that are triggered by metaphor.

It has no absolute and universal significance.

When I'm talking about arguments, that's probably what you thought of, the adversarial model.

The test shows that we cannot ignore the literal meaning of words even when the literal meaning gives the wrong answer.

We talk about being uplifted or elevated.

When I was little, I could not understand the concept that you could only live one life.