It turns out the gold is a metaphor for knowledge.
Thus the metaphors of situated knowledge and social location give rise to one of the key ideas of feminist standpoint theory the idea of the researcher as an insider/outsider who has "double vision".
A sociocultural perspective is adopted in analysing the project, using the metaphor of a 'professional knowledge landscape' [Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (1995). Teachers' professional knowledge landscapes. New York: Teachers College Press] to make sense of participants' experiences.
An approach to metaphor, based on the explicit representation of knowledge about metaphors, has been developed to address these issues.
"Metaphor is the currency of knowledge," Mr. Turin says.
The selections touched on themes explored in the opera, like the power of dreams for a better future and the metaphor of the tree of knowledge.
In her two-channel video "A Restoration," on view here, Evans's quixotic construction of an ancient utopia becomes a dystopic metaphor for encyclopedic organizations of knowledge and human identity.
If metaphor is a form of knowledge representation (Weiner 1984), its use is constrained by boundaries of a community.
Thus, in this metaphor, as the sphere of knowledge increases, the ratio of the volume of the known outpaces to the surface area of the unknown increases.
Now, one may postulate a supernatural God who exists outside of space and time and is not knowable to science because He is not part of the natural world, thus obviating my expanding sphere of knowledge metaphor.
The emphasis of the metaphors suggests that knowledge of the Good is a prerequisite for all other knowledge.
