Metaphors by Type
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Primary Metaphors
A
- ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT
- ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS REACHING A DESTINATION
- ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
- ACTION IS BEING IN A LOCATION
- ACTION IS MOTION
- ACTION IS MOTION ALONG A PATH
- ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION ALONG A PATH
- ACTIVITIES ARE BOUNDED REGIONS IN SPACE
- AFFECTION IS WARMTH
- AIDS TO ACHIEVING A PURPOSE ARE AIDS TO REACHING A DESTINATION
- ANGER IS HEAT
- ANGER IS PRESSURE IN A CONTAINER
- ARGUMENT IS WAR
- ARITHMETIC IS OBJECT CONSTRUCTION
- ASSESSING IS MEASURING
- ASSISTANCE IS SUPPORT
- ATTRIBUTES ARE ENTITIES
- ATTRIBUTES ARE POSSESSIONS
B
- BAD IS STINKY
- BEING ALIVE IS BEING PHYSICALLY AT THIS LOCATION
- BEING WEALTHY IS BEING FREE
- BELIEFS ARE POSSESSIONS
- BUSINESSES ARE LIVING ENTITIES
C
- CATEGORIES ARE BOUNDED REGIONS
- CAUSATION IS AGENTIVE CAUSATION
- CAUSATION IS OBJECT TRANSFER
- CAUSE INCREASE IN QUANTITY IS CAUSE UPWARD MOTION
- CAUSES ARE FORCES
- CERTAIN IS FIRM
- CHANGE IN MOOD IS VERTICAL MOVEMENT
- CHANGE IS ACQUISITION
- COGNIZING IS BODILY FUNCTIONING
- COGNIZING IS EATING
- COMMUNICATING IS FEEDING
- COMMUNICATING IS OBJECT TRANSFER
- COMMUNICATING IS POINTING
- COMMUNICATING IS SHOWING
- COMPULSION IS A COMPELLING FORCE
- CONSCIOUS IS UP
- CONSCIOUSNESS IS VERTICALITY
- CONSTITUENTS ARE CONTENTS
- CONTROL IS A BOUNDED REGION
- CONTROL IS PHYSICAL RESTRAINT
- CONTROL IS UP
- CONTROL IS VERTICALITY
- CREATING IS MAKING
D
- DECREASE IN QUANTITY IS DOWNWARD MOTION
- DEGREE IS DISTANCE ALONG A PATH
- DEGREE OF SIMILARITY IS DEGREE OF PROXIMITY
- DESIRE IS HUNGER
- DIFFERENT MEANS OF ACHIEVING A PURPOSE ARE DIFFERENT PATHS TO A DESTINATION
- DIFFICULTIES IN KNOWING ARE VISUAL OBSTRUCTIONS
- DIFFICULTY IS HARDNESS
- DIFFICULTY IS HEAVINESS
D cont.
E
- EASE OF ACTION IS EASE OF MOTION ALONG A PATH
- EDUCATION IS A RESOURCE
- EFFECTS ARE TRANSFERRED OBJECTS
- EMOTION IS PRESSURE IN A CONTAINER
- EMOTIONAL INTENSITY IS TEMPERATURE
- EMOTIONAL INTIMACY IS PHYSICAL PROXIMITY
- EMOTIONALLY INDIFFERENT IS COLD
- EMOTIONALLY INTENSE IS HOT
- EMOTIONALLY MILD IS EXPERIENCING MILD TEMPERATURE
- EMOTIONS ARE OBJECTS
- END OF AN ACTION IS THE END OF A PATH
- ENVIRONMENTAL HARM IS PHYSICAL INJURY
- ESSENTIAL IS INTERNAL
- EVENTS ARE OBJECTS
- EVIL IS DARK
- EXISTENCE IS VISIBILITY
- EXISTING IS BEING PHYSICALLY AT THIS LOCATION
- EXPERIENCE OF A STATE IS SPATIAL RELATION WITH AN ENTITY
- EXPERIENCING A STATE IS BEING AT A LOCATION
- EXPERIENCING A STATE IS POSSESSING AN OBJECT
F
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H
- HAPPINESS IS VERTICALITY
- HAPPY IS UP
- HARM IS PHYSICAL INJURY
- HEALTH IS UP
- HEALTH IS VERTICALITY
- HELP IS PHYSICAL SUPPORT
- HIGH STATUS IS UP
I
- IDEAS ARE FOOD
- IDEAS ARE OBJECTS
- IMPEDIMENTS TO ACTION ARE ANTAGONISTIC FORCES
- IMPORTANCE IS SIZE
- IMPORTANCE IS WEIGHT
- IMPORTANT IS CENTRAL
- IMPROVEMENT IN MOOD IS UPWARD MOTION
- INCREASE IN QUANTITY IS UPWARD MOTION
- INFORMATION IS CONTENTS
- INTENSITY OF ACTIVITY IS HEAT
K
L
M
M cont.
- MIND IS A CONTAINER
- MORALITY IS A STRAIGHT PATH
- MORALITY IS STRAIGHTNESS
- MORE IS UP
- MULTIPLICITY IS MASS
N
O
P
- PASSION IS HEAT
- PAST IS BEHIND
- POSITIVITY IS VERTICALITY
- PROGRESS IS FORWARD MOTION ALONG A PATH
- PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM IS PHYSICAL INJURY
- PURITY IS CLEANLINESS
- PURPOSEFUL ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION TO A DESTINATION
Q
R
- RELATEDNESS IS PROXIMITY
- RELATIONSHIP IS A BOUNDED REGION IN SPACE
- RELATIONSHIPS ARE OBJECTS
- RESOURCE IS A LIQUID
S
- SAD IS DOWN
- SCALES ARE PATHS
- SEEING IS TOUCHING
- SICKNESS IS DOWN
- SIMILARITY IS PROXIMITY
- SOCIAL GROUP IS A BOUNDED REGION
- STATES ARE LOCATIONS
- STATES ARE PHYSICAL OBJECTS
- STATUS IS VERTICALITY
- SUBJUGATION IS DOWN
- SYMPATHY IS WARMTH
T
- THINKING IS LINGUISTIC ACTIVITY
- THINKING IS MOVING
- THINKING IS PERCEIVING
- THINKING IS SPEAKING
- TIME IS A LANDSCAPE THROUGH WHICH THE OBSERVER MOVES
- TIME IS A MOVING OBJECT
- TIME IS A RESOURCE
- TIME IS A SUBSTANCE
- TIME PERIODS ARE CONTAINERS
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Composed/complex Metaphors
A
- ABILITY TO EVALUATE GOVERNMENT IS ABILITY TO SEE
- ABILITY TO EVALUATE IS ABILITY TO SEE
- ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT
- ACTIVITIES ARE JOURNEYS
- ADDRESSING CRIME IS CONTROLLING AN ANIMAL
- ADDRESSING ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IS TREATING AN ILLNESS
- ADDRESSING POVERTY IS TREATING AN ILLNESS
- ADDRESSING POVERTY IS WAGING WAR
- ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS TREATING AN ILLNESS
- ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS WAGING WAR
- ADVOCACY IS PHYSICAL COMBAT
- ADVOCATING GUN CONTROL IS INSANITY
- ADVOCATING GUN CONTROL IS ZEALOTRY
- AGREEMENT IS PHYSICAL PROXIMITY
- AIDS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS ARE TICKETS TO A DESTINATION
- AIDS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS AID TO UPWARD MOTION
- ALTERNATIVES ARE DIFFERENT AVAILABLE PATHS
- AMOUNT OF GUN VIOLENCE IS A FLUID
- AMOUNT OF POVERTY IS SIZE
- AMOUNT OF PROBLEM IS SIZE
- AMOUNT OF PROGRESS IS AMOUNT OF DISTANCE MOVED
- ANALYZING IS DISSECTING
- ANGER IS FIRE
- ANGER IS INSANITY
- ANGER IS THE HEAT OF FLUID IN A CONTAINER
- ARGUMENT IS PHYSICAL COMBAT
- ATTAINING CONTROL IS GAINING A POSSESSION
B
- BEING GOOD IS BEING UPRIGHT
- BEING IMMORAL IS BEING LOW
- BEING IN A HIGH SOCIAL CLASS IS BEING HIGH ON A SCALE
- BEING IN A LOW SOCIAL CLASS IS BEING LOW ON A SCALE
- BEING IN A MIDDLE CLASS IS BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCALE
- BUREAUCRACY IS A MACHINE
C
- CANCER IS A JOURNEY
- CANCER IS PHYSICAL COMBAT
- CANCER TREATMENT IS GAMBLING
- CAREER IS A BUILDING
- CAREER IS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE
- CAUSATION IS OBJECT TRANSFER
- CAUSED CHANGE OF STATE IS CAUSED CHANGE OF LOCATION
- CAUSING ECONOMIC HARDSHIP IS CAUSING PHYSICAL HARM
- CHANGE IS LOSS
- CHANGE OF STATE IS CHANGE OF POSSESSION
- CITIZEN RIGHTS ARE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES
- CITIZEN RIGHTS ARE SHIELDS FROM HARM
- CITIZENS ARE SLAVES
- CLASS INTERACTION IS PHYSICAL COMBAT
- COMMUNICATING IS DRAWING A PICTURE
- COMMUNICATING IS GUIDING
- COMMUNICATING IS OBJECT TRANSFER
- COMMUNITY IS A FAMILY
- COMPANY IS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE
- COMPANY IS A FAMILY
- COMPETITION IS A RACE
- COMPLEX IDEAS ARE SENTENCES
- COMPUTERS ARE PEOPLE
- CONSUMING RESOURCES IS EATING
- CONTROL IS OBJECT MANIPULATION
- CONTROL IS PHYSICAL RESTRAINT
- COOPERATIVE NATIONS ARE GOOD CITIZENS
- CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE
- CORRUPTION IS A DESTRUCTIVE NATURAL PROCESS
- CORRUPTION IS A DISEASE
- CORRUPTION IS DECAY
- CORRUPTION IS EROSION
- COUNTRY IS A CHILD
- CREATING A LAW IS GROWING A PLANT
- CRIME IS A DISEASE
- CRIME IS AN ANIMAL
- CRITICIZING IS ATTACKING
D
- DEBATING IS ONE-ON-ONE PHYSICAL FIGHTING
- DEBT IS PHYSICAL IMPEDIMENTS TO MOTION
- DEGREE OF MORALITY IS PHYSICAL HEIGHT
- DEMOCRACY IS A BIRD
- DEMOCRACY IS A FACADE
- DEMOCRACY IS A PLANT
- DEMOCRACY IS A TOWN MEETING
- DEMOCRACY IS AN EQUAL PARTNERSHIP
- DEMOCRATIC DECISION-MAKING IS TOWNHALL DECISION-MAKING
- DEMOCRATIC IDEOLOGY IS A COMMODITY
- DEVELOPING AN ATTRIBUTE IS CULTIVATION
- DIFFERING IDEOLOGIES ARE ADVERSARIES
- DIFFICULTIES ARE IMPEDIMENTS TO MOVEMENT
- DIFFICULTIES IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP ARE IMPEDIMENTS TO MOTION ALONG A PATH
- DIFFICULTIES IN PROGRESSING THROUGH LIFE ARE IMPEDIMENTS TO MOTION ALONG A PATH
- DIPLOMACY IS WAR
- DISEASE TREATMENT IS WAR
- DISEASES ARE BURDENS
- DOING EVIL IS FALLING
E
- ECONOMIC HARDSHIP IS PHYSICAL HARM
- ECONOMIC RESOURCE IS A LIMITED NATURAL RESOURCE
- ECONOMIC STATUS IS A POINT ON A SCALE
- ECONOMY IS A BODY
- ECONOMY IS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE
- ECONOMY IS A MACHINE
- EDUCATION IS COMPONENT OF BUILDING
- EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION IS GAMBLING
- EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A STRONG BUILDING
- EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A WELL-FUNCTIONING MACHINE
- EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT IS A WELL-MANAGED BUSINESS
- EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT IS A LEAN BODY
E cont.
- ELECTION IS A BOXING MATCH
- ELECTION IS A GAME
- ELECTION IS A RACE
- ELECTION IS WAR
- EMOTION IS PRESSURE IN A CONTAINER
- EMOTIONS ARE SUBSTANCES
- ENACTING LEGISLATION IS CAUSING MOTION ALONG A PATH
- ENTITLEMENT HOLDERS ARE LEECHES
- EVIL IS DARK
- EXPERIENCING A NEGATIVE STATE IS EXPERIENCING HARM
- EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES IS A PARASITIC INFECTION
- EXTENT OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS EXTENT OF AFFLICTION
F
- FERVENT ADVOCACY IS INSANITY
- FINANCIAL RESOURCES ARE PHYSICAL RESOURCES
- FREEDOM IS A VALUABLE POSSESSION
- FULLY COMMUNICATING A SEQUENCE OF THOUGHT IS SPELLING
G
- GAINING POWER IS GAINING A POSSESSION
- GOODNESS IS LIGHT
- GOODNESS IS VERTICALITY
- GOVERNING ACTION IS MOTION
- GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A BODY
- GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A BUILDING
- GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A MACHINE
- GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A PHYSICAL STRUCTURE
- GOVERNMENT IS A BUSINESS
- GOVERNMENT IS A CHILDCARE PROVIDER
- GOVERNMENT IS A DISEASE
- GOVERNMENT IS A DOCTOR
- GOVERNMENT IS A DRIVER
- GOVERNMENT IS A PARENT
- GOVERNMENT IS A PATIENT
- GOVERNMENT IS A PERSON
- GOVERNMENT IS A SERVANT
- GOVERNMENT IS A SHEPHERD
- GOVERNMENT IS AN ORGANISM
- GOVERNMENT REGULATION IS A PHYSICAL CONSTRAINT
- GOVERNMENT'S HARMFUL TREATMENT OF RIGHTS IS INVADING A TERRITORY
- GREATER DEGREE OF GUN CONTROL IS STRONGER PHYSICAL RESTRAINT
- GREED IS HUNGER
- GUIDED ACTION IS GUIDED MOTION ALONG A PATH
- GUN CONTROL ADVOCACY IS PHYSICAL HARM
- GUN CONTROL IS PHYSICAL RESTRAINT
- GUN CONTROL REGULATION IS A DISEASE
- GUN CONTROL REGULATION IS A MOTION IMPEDIMENT
- GUN OWNERSHIP IS INSANITY
- GUN VIOLENCE IS A PHYSICAL AFFLICTION
- GUNS ARE A DISEASE
- GUNS ARE A NATURAL DISASTER
- GUNS ARE OBJECTS OF WORSHIP
- GUNS ARE PESTS
H
I
- IDEA SYSTEMS ARE COMPLEX PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
- IDEA SYSTEMS ARE FLUID MASSES
- IDEAS ARE PEOPLE
- IDEOLOGIES ARE ORGANISMS
- IMMORAL IS CROOKED
- IMMORALITY IS DEGENERATION
- IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS ANTAGONISTIC FORCE
- IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS CONFUSING PATHS TO MOVING OUT OF A LOCATION
- IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS CONSTRUCTED CONFINEMENT
- IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS CONSTRUCTED RESTRAINTS
- IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS ENVIRONMENTAL CONFINEMENT
- IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS ENVIRONMENTAL RESTRAINTS
- IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS PHYSICAL BURDEN
- IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS PHYSICAL IMPEDIMENTS TO MOTION
- IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS WATER CONFINEMENT
- INABILITY TO UTILIZE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IS INABILITY TO ACCESS A LOCATION
- INEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT IS A BLOATED BODY
- INHIBITTING ENACTMENT OF LEGISLATION IS IMPEDING MOTION
- INSTITUTION IS A BUSINESS
- INSTITUTION IS A FACTORY
- INSTITUTION IS A MACHINE
- INSTITUTION IS A VEHICLE
- INSTITUTION IS AN ORGANISM
- INSTITUTIONS ARE BUILDINGS
- INSTITUTIONS ARE PEOPLE
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ARE INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
K
L
- LABOR IS A RESOURCE
- LAISSEZ-FAIRE MARKET IS A STRICT FATHER FAMILY
- LAWS ARE LIVING ENTITIES
- LAWS ARE PHYSICAL RESTRAINTS
- LAWS ARE PLANTS
- LEADING A GROUP IS DRIVING A VEHICLE
- LEADING A NATION IS DRIVING A VEHICLE
- LEADING A NATION IS STEERING A BOAT
- LEARNING IS GETTING NUTRITIOUS FOOD
- LEGITIMATE POWER IS AN ENTRUSTED OBJECT
- LESSER DEGREE OF GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION IS WEAKER PHYSICAL RESTRAINT
- LIBERAL MARKET IS A NURTURANT PARENT FAMILY
- LIFE IS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE
- LIFE IS A JOURNEY
- LIFE IS A PRECIOUS POSSESSION
- LIFE IS A SEQUENCE OF MOTIONS
- LOGICAL STRUCTURES ARE ERECT COMPLEX STRUCTURES
- LOSING AN ELECTION IS LOSING A BOXING MATCH
- LOSING AN ELECTION IS LOSING A RACE
- LOSING AN ELECTION IS LOSING A WAR
M
M cont.
- MAKING A DECISION IS WEIGHING
- MAKING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY THE SAME FOR EVERYONE IS EQUALIZING QUANTITIES
- MAKING RELATED IS CAUSING CONTACT
- MARKET IS A FAMILY
- MARKET IS A NATURAL PROCESS
- MARKET IS AN ACTOR
- MEMORIZATION IS WRITING
- MIND IS A BUILDING
- MIND IS A COMPUTER
- MIND IS A MACHINE
- MIND IS A PHYSICAL STRUCTURE
- MONEY IS A LIQUID
- MONEY TRANSFER IS FLUID MOTION
- MORAL ACTION IS A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION
- MORAL ACTION IS NURTURANCE
- MORAL AGENTS ARE NURTURING PARENTS
- MORAL AUTHORITY IS PARENTAL AUTHORITY
- MORAL CORRUPTION IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE
- MORAL GROWTH IS PHYSICAL GROWTH
- MORALITY IS PURITY
- MORALITY IS STRENGTH
- MORALITY IS UPRIGHTNESS
- MORALITY IS WHOLENESS
N
- NATION IS A BOAT
- NATION IS A BUILDING
- NATION IS A BUSINESS
- NATION IS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE
- NATION IS A FAMILY
- NATION IS A MACHINE
- NATION IS A PERSON
- NATION IS A SYSTEM
- NATION IS A VEHICLE
- NATURE IS A RESOURCE
- NATURE IS A STRICT FATHER
- NEGATIVELY EVALUATED CONDITIONS ARE HARMFUL AGENTS
- NONFUNCTIONAL BUREAUCRACY IS A BROKEN MACHINE
O
P
- PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS
- PEOPLE ARE PLANTS
- PERSISTING IS REMAINING ERECT
- POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES ARE LIVING ENTITIES
- POLITICAL REGION IS A VEHICLE
- POVERTY IS A CRIME
- POVERTY IS A DISEASE
- POVERTY IS A FIERCE CREATURE
- POVERTY IS A PLANT
- POWER IS A POSSESSED OBJECT
- PREVENTED CHANGE OF STATE IS PREVENTED CHANGE OF LOCATION
- PREVENTING ENACTMENT OF LEGISLATION IS BLOCKING MOTION
- PROGRESSING THROUGH LIFE IS MOVING ALONG A PATH
- PROGRESSING THROUGH LIFE IS MOVING THROUGH A TERRAIN
- PROVING IS SHOWING
- PURIFYING IS CLEANSING
R
- REFINING A LAW IS TRIMMING A PLANT
- REGULATION IS A DISEASE
- RELATIONSHIPS ARE COMPLEX STRUCTURES
- RELATIONSHIPS ARE CONTAINERS
- RELATIONSHIPS ARE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES
- RIGHTS ARE SHIELDS FROM HARM
- ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP ENCOUNTERING DIFFICULTIES IS A VEHICLE ENCOUNTERING OBSTACLES
- ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP IS A JOURNEY
S
- SEEKING KNOWLEDGE IS SEARCHING
- SELF-INITIATED STATE CHANGE IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION
- SENSING IS SMELLING
- SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS IS A SEQUENCE OF MOVEMENTS
- SIMPLE IDEAS ARE WORDS
- SOCIAL FUNCTIONING IS PHYSICAL HEALTH
- SOCIAL GROUPS ARE BUILDINGS
- SOCIAL GROUPS ARE COMPLEX STRUCTURES
- SOCIAL GROUPS ARE CONTAINERS
- SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE PLANTS
- SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE ANIMATE ENTITIES
- SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DISEASES
- SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE PHYSICAL AFFLICTIONS
- SOCIETY IS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE
- SOCIETY IS A PERSON
- SOLVING A PROBLEM IS FIXING A BROKEN OBJECT
- SURVIVING CANCER IS HARMING CANCER
T
- TAXATION IS A BURDEN
- TAXATION IS A FORCE
- TAXATION IS CAUSING HARM
- TAXATION IS FORCEFUL REMOVAL OF A SUBSTANCE
- TAXATION IS THEFT
- TAXES ARE DISEASES
- TAXES ARE DUES
- TERMINATION OF CONTROL IS LOSS OF A POSSESSION
- THEORIES ARE BUILDINGS
- THEORIES ARE COMPLEX STRUCTURES
- THINKING IS OBJECT MANIPULATION
- TIME IS A COMMODITY
- TIME IS A RESOURCE
- TIME IS MONEY
- TRUST IN GOVERNMENT IS A BUILDING
- TRUST RELATIONSHIPS ARE BUILDINGS
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Entailed Metaphors
A
- ABILITY TO KNOW IS ABILITY TO SEE
- ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS REACHING A DESTINATION
- ADDRESSING CRIME IS CONTROLLING AN ANIMAL
- ADDRESSING ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IS TREATING AN ILLNESS
- ADDRESSING POVERTY IS TREATING AN ILLNESS
- AID TO KNOWING IS A LIGHT SOURCE
- AIDS TO ACHIEVING A PURPOSE ARE AIDS TO REACHING A DESTINATION
- AMOUNT OF PROGRESS IS AMOUNT OF DISTANCE MOVED
- ATTAINING CONTROL IS GAINING A POSSESSION
B
C
- CAUSE INCREASE IN QUANTITY IS CAUSE UPWARD MOTION
- CAUSED CHANGE OF STATE IS CAUSED CHANGE OF LOCATION
- CAUSED INABILITY TO ACT IS PREVENTION OF MOTION ALONG A PATH
- CHANGE IS LOSS
- CONSCIOUS IS UP
- CONSUMING TOO MANY RESOURCES IS EATING TOO MUCH FOOD
- CONTROL IS UP
D
- DECREASE IN QUANTITY IS DOWNWARD MOTION
- DIFFERENT MEANS OF ACHIEVING A PURPOSE ARE DIFFERENT PATHS TO A DESTINATION
- DIFFICULTIES IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP ARE IMPEDIMENTS TO MOTION ALONG A PATH
- DIFFICULTIES IN KNOWING ARE VISUAL OBSTRUCTIONS
- DIFFICULTIES IN PROGRESSING THROUGH LIFE ARE IMPEDIMENTS TO MOTION ALONG A PATH
- DISTURBING IDEAS ARE DISGUSTING FOODS
E
E cont.
- EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT IS A WELL-MANAGED BUSINESS
- EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT IS A LEAN BODY
- EMOTIONALLY INDIFFERENT IS COLD
- EMOTIONALLY INTENSE IS HOT
- EMOTIONALLY MILD IS EXPERIENCING MILD TEMPERATURE
- END OF AN ACTION IS THE END OF A PATH
- EVIL IS DARK
F
G
- GAINING POWER IS GAINING A POSSESSION
- GOVERNMENT IS A DRIVER
- GUIDED ACTION IS GUIDED MOTION ALONG A PATH
H
I
- IMMORAL IS CROOKED
- IMPROVEMENT IN MOOD IS UPWARD MOTION
- INCREASE IN QUANTITY IS UPWARD MOTION
- INTEREST IN IDEAS IS APPETITE FOR FOOD
- INTERESTING IDEAS ARE APPETIZING FOODS
L
M
- MANNER OF ACTION IS MANNER OF MOVEMENT
- MEANS ARE PATHS
- MIND IS A BODY
- MORAL IS STRAIGHT
- MORE IS BIG
- MORE IS UP
P
- PREPARING IDEAS TO BE UNDERSTOOD IS FOOD PREPARATION
- PREVENTED CHANGE OF STATE IS PREVENTED CHANGE OF LOCATION
- PROGRESS IS FORWARD MOTION ALONG A PATH
- PROVING IS SHOWING
- PURPOSEFUL ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION TO A DESTINATION
- PURPOSEFUL THINKING IS GOAL-DIRECTED MOTION
R
- ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP ENCOUNTERING DIFFICULTIES IS A VEHICLE ENCOUNTERING OBSTACLES
- ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ARE VEHICLES
S
- SAD IS DOWN
- SEEKING KNOWLEDGE IS SEARCHING
- SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS IS A SEQUENCE OF MOVEMENTS
- SICKNESS IS DOWN
- SUBJUGATION IS DOWN
- SURVIVING CANCER IS WINNING A COMPETITION
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