Metaphor:PURITY IS CLEANLINESS
Aliases | PURITY IS CLEANLINESS (Metaphors We Live By, Philosophy in the Flesh,307) PURE IS CLEAN (Elise) |
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | General |
Metaphor Type | Primary |
Experiential Basis | Pure substances have nothing else mixed in with them; a common impurity is dirt, which is dirty. Hence, impure substances are dirty, and pure substances are clean. |
Source Frame | Cleanliness Roles:
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Target Frame | Purity Roles:pure_entity, pure_condition, purity_x-schema
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Mappings:
pure_substance | <= | clean_substance |
a pure substance is one that is free from other substances (impurities); a clean substance has no dirty or unhealthy substances in it. |
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | PURITY IS CLEANLINESS |
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Relation Type | is related to |
Related Metaphor | MORALITY IS PURITY |
Description | Part of the Purity cascade |
Entailments:
Target Entailment | Purifying |
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Source Inference | Cleansing |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) | PURIFYING IS CLEANSING |
Examples:
Example Text: | He's pure evil. |
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Provenance: | Philosophy in the Flesh (307) |
Comments: | pure - target language |
Example Text: | Her soul was scrubbed clean of impurities. |
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Comments: | scrubbed clean - source; impurities - target |
Graph of related metaphors:
digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Cleanliness" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Cleanliness" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Purity" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Purity" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n3 [label="Impurity" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Impurity" fontsize="10.0" ];
n3 -> n2 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; }
digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="PURITY IS CLEANLINESS" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:PURITY_IS_CLEANLINESS" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="MORALITY IS PURITY" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:MORALITY_IS_PURITY" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }
digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Well-being" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Well-being" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Cleanliness" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Cleanliness" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Purity" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Purity" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n3 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }
Entailment | Purifying (Cleansing, ?, PURIFYING IS CLEANSING) + |
Example | English (He's pure evil., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (307), ?, pure - target language, ?) + and ? (Her soul was scrubbed clean of impurities., ?, ?, ?, ?, scrubbed clean - source, impurities - target) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Cleanliness + |
Has target frame | Frame:Purity + |
Mapping | pure_substance (clean_substance, a pure substance is one that is free from other substances (impurities)) + |
Metaphor.Alias | PURITY IS CLEANLINESS (Metaphors We Live By, Philosophy in the Flesh) + and PURE IS CLEAN (Elise) + |
Metaphor.Experiential basis | Pure substances have nothing else mixed in with them; a common impurity is dirt, which is dirty. Hence, impure substances are dirty, and pure substances are clean. + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Level | General + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Cleanliness + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Purity + |
Metaphor.Type | Primary + |
Related metaphor | is related to (MORALITY IS PURITY, Part of the Purity cascade) + |
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:PURITY IS CLEANLINESS#Is_example_of + |