Categories: Comparisons
An example of extended metphor used in science writing:
"Darwin…collected one stone after another, as it were, carefully examining each for flaws and fitting it to others until at last the whole edifice stood complete."
Ernst Cassirer
Cassirer, E. (1950/1978). The Problem of Knowledge. Philosophy, Science, & History since Hegel (W. H. Woglom & C. W. Hendel, Trans.). Yale University Press.
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