The French language is used in all sorts of ways. Poets use it as a lever to evoke emotions. So the words caress or hurt the readers or listeners. These emissaries provide them with images that may ...

Erkenntnis is a philosophical journal publishing papers committed in one way or another to the philosophical attitude which is signified by the label "analytic philosophy". It concentrates on those ...

The other day, I asked one of my friends, a paralegal at a large law firm, about his work life. He replied in one sentence: “Let’s just say I would be better off juggling three flaming torches while ...

Analogies are a mainstay of human communication and reasoning. We know instantly what it means to say that “Bing Cosby has a velvet voice” or that someone is “as annoying as fingernails on a ...

An ingenious mind finds types everywhere, but real analogies are not so easily pointed out. Nearly all writers and speakers give currency more or less to false or fanciful analogies: men of classical ...

"[Trump] is like the blond alien in the 1995 movie ‘Species,’ who mutates from ova to adult in months, regenerating and reconfiguring at warp speed to escape the establishment, kill everyone in sight ...

Sometimes a complex health concept is best explained through an analogy — an easily understood comparison of two different ideas. A medical analogy can be an effective communicative tool for any ...

Humans have a good memory, but it doesn't compare to some of our animal counterparts. Indeed, birds are able to follow the same migration routes, elephants retain watering holes, and dogs retain ...