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Problems with the concept of force in the momentum metaphor

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2000
Although the momentum metaphor is successful in many ways, there remain problems with the adequacy of the notion of a force in the behavioral sense and the question of whether the conditions used to apply force can truly be separated from the conditions that establish and maintain behavioral mass.
David N. Harper
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Action, program, metaphor

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2020
Metaphor is indispensable to science. Evelyn Fox Keller has argued argue that there is a commonality between the metaphors of gene action, and that of a genetic program. I suggest that the common thread is that of executive control or agency. The genetic
Denis Walsh
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The Field-of-force Metaphor International : A Study in Industrial Change

International Studies of Management & Organization, 1987
L. Melin
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THE COGNITIVE UNDERPINNINGS OF METAPHOR AS THE DRIVING FORCE OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

The Evolution of Language, 2014
Andrew D. M. Smith   +5 more
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Entelechy Regained? Further Musings on a Quantised Gyroscopic Metaphor for the Vital Force in Health and Dis-Ease

Complementary Medicine Research, 2019
Background: Many complementary and alternative medicine modalities consider the vital force (Vf) an organism’s source of health and healing, Hahnemann’s notion of the Vf having similarities with quantum systems. Thus, the Vf is only indirectly observable
L. Milgrom
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor

, 2022
In Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor, Kate Sheckler constructs a new method to categorize metaphor, arguing that the moment of consent that exists in the form determines the effects of the interchange. Using the fiction of Ursula K.
Kate Sheckler
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Expectations for therapy in pediatric rehabilitation: reframing meaning through metaphor

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2021
Purpose To propose a holistic approach and an accompanying tool to facilitate conversations about expectations of therapy in pediatric rehabilitation based on meanings generated through metaphor.
Eric Smart   +3 more
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Stages of forced termination: Uses of the death metaphor

Psychiatric Quarterly, 1979
Several patients undergoing forced termination appeared to experience a series of staged reactions similar to those described in dying patients. On the basis of this parallel we explored the effects of using the specific clarification that the ending of therapy was similar to a death.
E J, Mikkelsen, T G, Gutheil
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