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Table of Contents

For each line in the table,

click on the TEXT to go to a DESCRIPTION of the metaphor(s)/metonymies
click on the symbol to go to the relevant EXAMPLES page

Ideas/Emotions as Physical Objects

Ideas as Possessions

Ideas as Sharable Commodities

Ideas as Persons or other Animate Beings

Mind Parts as Persons or other Animate Beings

Mind as Animate Being or Living Body

Mind as Physical Object -- Miscellaneous

Mind as Physical Space

Emotional-Mind as Physical Space

Mind as World-Definer (Ideas as Models)

Ideas as External Entities

Ideas as External Utterances

Ideas as Internal Utterances

Cognizing as Seeing

Cognizing as Interacting with Non-Mental Entities

Miscellaneous Metaphors

Metonymy (with comments on metaphor as well)

You may wish to consult the following:

Questions? Email jbarnden@cs.nmsu.edu

Many of the metaphor descriptions accessible through the above table are based on the following article. Somewhat fuller discussion of some of the metaphors appears there.

Barnden, J.A. (in press):

   ``Consciousness and common-sense metaphors of mind.''

   In S. O'Nuallain, P. McKevitt \&  E. Mac Aogain (Eds), 
      Reaching for Mind: Foundations of Cognitive Science.
      John Benjamin.

   Electronically accessible in postscript