Assertion: metaphor | /r/HasProperty | concept
Facets:
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
value: at bottom
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Most metaphors are concepts: see conceptual metaphor.
text: The contemporary theory that metaphor is primarily conceptual, conventional, and part of the ordinary system of thought and language can be traced to Michael Reddy’s now classic essay...
text: Metaphor is living, Ricoeur claims, in that it is the principle which revives our perception of the world and through which we become aware of our creative capacity for seeing the world anew.
text: While a metaphor is a conceptual view which presents ideas as objects, a metonymy presents a salient connection between two concepts.
text: Lakoff and his collaborators hold that metaphor is at bottom a conceptual matter, a matter of thinking of one thing as and in terms of another.
text: The essential thrust of Lakoff's work has been the argument that metaphors are a primarily conceptual construction and are in fact central to the development of thought.
text: Metaphors that provide us with ways of thinking and ways of talking about things are called conceptual metaphors, and they are the subject of an important book, Metaphors