Sentence examples for temporal metaphors from inspiring English sources

This is unusual". Speakers of Kuuk Thayorre, for example, speak about directionality in terms of north, south, east and west rather than using temporal metaphors.

It is not surprising that these temporal metaphors cause some philosophers of mathematics acute discomfort.

Although the eternal is timeless, some temporal metaphors might more aptly characterize the eternal than others.

This way of speaking indicates that in our attempts to understand this notion of potential infinity, we are drawn to temporal metaphors.

To say "at once" or "simultaneously" is to use a temporal metaphor, but Boethius is clear that it does not make sense to think of the whole of temporal reality as being before God's mind in a single temporal present.

To me these abrupt rhythms suggest human vital signs, heartbeats and breathing, so it wasn't too much of a leap to use that temporal metaphor to accompany a moving image of a mountain.

I realize that my presentation of the iterative conception does mix temporal and spatial metaphors.

This natural desire to situate cognition with real contexts is reflected in the mind-body connections of mathematical concepts such as embodied numerosity (Moeller et al., 2012) and the use of temporal and spatial metaphors (e.g., "the number is approaching zero").

Núñez says: "There is no ultimate truth that you could discover that is outside that metaphor". So if temporal landmarks don't exist except in our heads, where does our notion of time come from?

It exposes the multi-faceted nature of discrimination as concomitantly racialized, gendered, aged, geographical, temporal, etc. Professor Crenshaw's metaphor of the "intersections" at which we live is a touchstone for thinking about race in the United States and beyond.

Logical metaphor is the metaphorical ways of realizing the consequential and temporal relations inside clauses (Martin 1992a).