Metaphor:EXISTENCE IS VISIBILITY

Name Gloss	EXISTENCE IS VISIBILITY
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Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Primary
Experiential Basis	The correlation between our awareness of objects (i.e. knowledge of their existence) and their presence within our field of vision

Source Frame	Visual evaluation Roles:evaluator, evaluee, visible part of evaluee, visible properties, expected visible properties, evaluation_outcome, difficulties in evaluating
Target Frame	Existence Roles:

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Example Text:	The dodo disappeared in the 1600s.
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Provenance:	Grady (1998)
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n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" }

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n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }