As the play gently unfolds, that sharp metaphor gains in resonance.
Once a concept that referred to complex communities of interdependent living organisms, the metaphor is gaining traction in sectors well beyond the natural world – particularly where the rise of digital networks has radically disrupted and reshaped old institutions.
These findings suggest that metaphors can gain power by coercing further incoming information to fit with the relational structure suggested by the metaphor.
The article concludes that "although CRISPR metaphors are not settled, the metaphors that are gaining traction obscure and mislead in important ways", in particular conveying a level of precision that has not yet been reached (O'Keefe et al. 2015: 8).
For example, it is quite unclear how the metaphor of "comparing" applies to knowledge gained through perceptual belief-formation.
The broad scope of Rorty's metaphilosophical deconstruction, together with a penchant for uncashed metaphor and swift, broad-stroke historical narrative, has gained Rorty a sturdy reputation as an anti-philosopher's philosopher.
An explanation of the activities required in each step is given and justified from experience gained in developing a number of interface metaphors.
An alternative view was that the leaders used the metaphor of the trap to rationalize their reaction to the unanticipated criticism, popular demonstrations, and general antiparty sentiments expressed in the late spring, when the term "hundred flowers" gained international currency.
This means that progress in philosophy is gained less from constructive solutions to problems than through therapeutic dissolution of their causes, that is, through the invention of new vocabularies by the launch of new and fruitful metaphors.
Sadras and Denison (2009) argue that the metaphor of conflict between plant parts (cells, vegetative versus reproductive organs, modules, ramets) is an 'incomplete argument' because it neglects the increased fitness that can be gained when intra-plant competition is restricted.
