Categories: Comparisons
An example of an extended metaphor used by a scientist:
"It is at this modest point that scientific research enters with its exact methods, and it works its way step by step from the specific to the always more general. To this end, it must set and continually keep its sights on the objective reality which it seeks, and in this sense exact science can never dispense with Reality in the metaphysical sense of the term. But the real world of metaphysics is not the starting point, but the goal of all scientific endeavour, a beacon winking and showing the way from an inaccessibly remote distance."
Plank, M. (1947/1949). The meaning and limits of exact science (F. Gaynor, Trans.). In Scientific Autobiography and other papers (pp. 80-120). Philosophical Library.
