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Month: May 2020

On wild beasts, viruses, war and crimes: metaphors and their effects

One way of finding out what is this? is to ask what is this like?, deploying metaphor and other forms of allegory. In a study to explore the effects of metaphor on thinking, Paul Thibodeau and Lera Boroditsky asked people

Robert Canton May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

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