Metaphors, if they're any good, distill complexity not into simplicity but into clarity, bypassing the details of particular situations to find and represent their unifying universal traits and ideas.
For, if it were, then if one of the concrete particulars whose constituents it joins cease to exist, so will every other concrete particular unified by the same (universal) relation of compresence.
Electric and magnetic forces unified by Electromagnetic Theory The universal gravitational constant is hypothesized to change as the universe expands.
What is unique now, from the perspective of our work, is the opportunity provided by the digital medium to unify and provide universal access to dispersed archival materials in a way that was completely unimaginable even five or 10 years ago.
One of the big promises of Snow Leopard is that it will unify architectures (the universal binary is a start, but they're going to nail it down further) and remove demonstrably unnecessary components to keep applications small in both download and install size.
Thankfully, "The Great Comet of 1812" is the final number, the chance for the design and the character-driven narrative finally to reach for universal, unifying themes.
After our calibration, the statistical significance is unified and there is a universal standard.
Physicalism, and thus unified science, were based on a universal 'jargon'jargon
Once more, a universal cultural language to a large extent unified aims in the scattered languages; English still plays this role, though it appears to be slowly declining.
