Cognitive Science

Metaphors studied or originating in cognitive science — how humans think about thinking, conceptualize abstract ideas, and structure understanding.

Mappings (83)

• A Force Is a Moving Object conceptual-metaphor
• A Problem Is a Body of Water conceptual-metaphor
• Action Is Control Over Possessions conceptual-metaphor
• Action Is Motion conceptual-metaphor
• Activities Are Containers conceptual-metaphor
• An Instrument Is a Companion conceptual-metaphor
• Argument Is a Building conceptual-metaphor
• Argument Is a Journey conceptual-metaphor
• Argument Is Dance conceptual-metaphor
• Argument Is War conceptual-metaphor
• Beliefs Are Beings with a Life Cycle conceptual-metaphor
• Cargo Cult Programming dead-metaphor
• Causation Is Commercial Transaction conceptual-metaphor
• Causes Are Forces conceptual-metaphor
• Change Is Motion conceptual-metaphor
• Coherent Is Whole conceptual-metaphor
• Communication Is Sending conceptual-metaphor
• Competition Is a Race conceptual-metaphor
• Conscious Is Up; Unconscious Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• Difficulties Are Impediments to Motion conceptual-metaphor
• Emotional Stability Is Balance conceptual-metaphor
• Emotions Are Entities Within A Person conceptual-metaphor
• Existence Is A Location conceptual-metaphor
• Finished Is Up conceptual-metaphor
• Foreseeable Future Events Are Up (and Ahead) conceptual-metaphor
• Good Is Up; Bad Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• Happy Is Up; Sad Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• Having Control Is Up; Being Subject To Control Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• Health Is Up; Sickness Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Commodities conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Cutting Instruments conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Fashions conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Food conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Light-Sources conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Money conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Objects conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are People conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Plants conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Products conceptual-metaphor
• Ideas Are Resources conceptual-metaphor
• Inflation Is an Entity conceptual-metaphor
• Labor Is a Resource conceptual-metaphor
• Life Is a Container conceptual-metaphor
• Life Is a Gambling Game conceptual-metaphor
• Life Is a Journey conceptual-metaphor
• Long-Term Purposeful Change Is a Journey conceptual-metaphor
• Love Is a Collaborative Work of Art conceptual-metaphor
• Love Is A Journey conceptual-metaphor
• Love Is a Patient conceptual-metaphor
• Love Is a Physical Force conceptual-metaphor
• Love Is a Unity conceptual-metaphor
• Love Is Madness conceptual-metaphor
• Love Is War conceptual-metaphor
• More Is Up; Less Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• Obligations Are Forces conceptual-metaphor
• People Are Machines conceptual-metaphor
• Problems Are Puzzles conceptual-metaphor
• Program Failure Is Bodily Failure conceptual-metaphor
• Properties Are Possessions conceptual-metaphor
• Psychological Forces Are Physical Forces conceptual-metaphor
• Purposes Are Destinations conceptual-metaphor
• Rational Is Up; Emotional Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• Rubber Duck Debugging conceptual-metaphor
• Seeing Is Touching conceptual-metaphor
• Significant Is Big conceptual-metaphor
• States Are Locations conceptual-metaphor
• Status Is Up; Lack Of Status Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• The Conduit Metaphor paradigm
• The Map Is Not the Territory paradigm
• The Mind Is A Brittle Object conceptual-metaphor
• The Mind Is A Machine conceptual-metaphor
• The Trickster archetype
• The Visual Field Is A Bounded Region conceptual-metaphor
• The Visual Field Is A Container conceptual-metaphor
• Theories Are Buildings conceptual-metaphor
• Time Is a Limited Resource conceptual-metaphor
• Time Is a Moving Object conceptual-metaphor
• Time Is Money conceptual-metaphor
• Time Is Stationary and We Move Through It conceptual-metaphor
• Understanding Is Seeing conceptual-metaphor
• Unknown Is Up; Known Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• Virtue Is Up; Depravity Is Down conceptual-metaphor
• Yo-Yo Problem dead-metaphor