Posts Tagged ‘conduit metaphor’

Semantic Metaphors

// April 29th, 2008 // Comments // Semantic Web, blogging

I tend to live in a world of metaphor. It’s not my fault, according to Lakoff and Johnson. We all use metaphor all the time: to construct our thoughts and work out abstract concepts.

I’ve been exploring this a bit in the context of the Semantic Web over on Nodalities. Please feel free to have a look and send me some feedback on what you think about this set of ideas.

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