Example of an analogy used to explain science:
"…brown ground beetles…go hunting male and female together, but then connect sexually. Once the coupling is consummated, the behaviour of the males towards the females does not change at all, but the latter throw themselves on the males ravenously and tear them limb from limb, against which the males only defend themselves feebly. In the female's environment, the carrier of meaning 'friend' has changed to 'food' without changing its constitution in the least, just as when the curbstone, without changing, gives up its meaning as an element of the path in order to transform itself into a projectile when the mood of the subject 'human being' changes and impresses a different meaning upon the stone."
Jakob von Uexküll
von Uexküll, J. (1940/2010). A Theory of Meaning (J. D. O'Neil, Trans.). In A Foray into the Worlds of Animals; with, A Theory of Meaning (pp. 137-208). University of Minnesota Press.
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