Categories: Comparisons
An historical example of a metaphor used by a scientist:
"Pavlov…called the digestive system a 'chemical factory'."
Ivan Pavlov quoted by Slava Gerovitch
Gerovitch, S. (2002). From Newspeak to Cyberspeak. A history of Soviet cybernetics. MIT Press.
[Please be aware that a word may have different nuances, or even a different meaning, according to context.]« Back to Index
