# Metaphor

We talk about time as money and arguments as war, and the talk shapes what we notice. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argued that metaphor is a main way people think about abstract things.

Connects to:
- [Models of the world](https://mapideas.org/i/mat_model)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Conceptual metaphor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor)

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