Metaphor:ABILITY TO KNOW IS ABILITY TO SEE
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | General |
Metaphor Type | Entailed |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Seeing Roles:see-er, seen_object, eyes, vision_x-schema, visual_ability, seen_object_perceived_elements
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Target Frame | Knowing Roles:knower, knowledge, knowing_x-schema, knowledge_capacity, knowledge_status
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Mappings:
knower | <= | seer |
knowledge | <= | object_seen |
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | ABILITY TO KNOW IS ABILITY TO SEE |
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Relation Type | is an entailment of |
Related Metaphor | KNOWING IS SEEING |
Description |
Entailments:
Target Entailment | Knower's personal ability to know things affects how well he can learn about something |
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Source Inference | the quality of the Seer's vision affects how well he can see an object |
Type of Inferential Structure | precondition |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | the ease with which the Knower can access knowledge affects how easily he can learn something |
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Source Inference | lighting conditions affect how well the See-er can see an ob |
Type of Inferential Structure | precondition |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | the ease with which the Knower can access knowledge affects how easily he can learn something |
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Source Inference | the presence/absence of obstructions affects how well the See-er can see an object |
Type of Inferential Structure | precondition |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | change in ability to know |
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Source Inference | change in ability to see |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Examples:
Example Text: | The US is blind to the limits of Palestinian politics. |
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Comments: | See-er's vision is impaired |
Example Text: | The issue was exposed to the light of day. |
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Example Text: | The government covered up the high levels of radiation. |
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Graph of related metaphors:
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n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Learning" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Learning" fontsize="10.0" ];
n3 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Understanding" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Understanding" fontsize="10.0" ];
n4 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Cognizing" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Cognizing" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n5 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
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n1 -> n2 [label = "is a target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="KNOWING IS SEEING" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:KNOWING_IS_SEEING" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n2 -> n3 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; }
digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Cause to see" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Cause_to_see" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Seeing" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Seeing" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is in causal relation with" fontsize="8.0" ]; n3 [label="Directed vision" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Directed_vision" fontsize="10.0" ];
n3 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n4 [label="Visual obstruction" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Visual_obstruction" fontsize="10.0" ];
n4 -> n2 [label = "is in causal relation with" fontsize="8.0" ]; n5 [label="Perception" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Perception" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n5 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n6 [label="Luminosity" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Luminosity" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n6 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }
Entailment | Knower's personal ability to know things affects how well he can learn about something (the quality of the Seer's vision affects how well he can see an object, precondition, ?) +, the ease with which the Knower can access knowledge affects how easily he can learn something (lighting conditions affect how well the See-er can see an ob, precondition, ?) +, the ease with which the Knower can access knowledge affects how easily he can learn something (the presence/absence of obstructions affects how well the See-er can see an object, precondition, ?) + and change in ability to know (change in ability to see, ?, ?) + |
Example | English (The US is blind to the limits of Palestinian politics., ?, ?, ?, ?, See-er's vision is impaired, ?) +, English (The issue was exposed to the light of day., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + and English (The government covered up the high levels of radiation., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Seeing + |
Has target frame | Frame:Knowing + |
Mapping | knower (seer, ?) + and knowledge (object_seen, ?) + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Level | General + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Seeing + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Knowing + |
Metaphor.Type | Entailed + |
Related metaphor | is an entailment of (KNOWING IS SEEING, ?) + |
Has subobject "Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page. | Metaphor:ABILITY TO KNOW IS ABILITY TO SEE#Is_example_of + |