Supermetaphor

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In this way he promotes landscape into a supermetaphor, in order to expose a general tendency towards equalization.

Source: wiktionary

Each legal order stands on a grounding fact, a superfact or a supermetaphor, as I would call it, which determines the specific interpretive standpoint or perspective that characterizes the adopted type of projection.

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In a way, what Fechner tried to do through his inner psychophysics of intensity was to subvert a set of tenacious metaphors—a kind of "Supermetaphor," governing psychophysiological thinking, that has channeled the thinking of so very many scientists before and after him. Broadly speaking, the Supermetaphor seeks equivalences in kind between physical and mental processes, as it postulates a strict quantitative as well as qualitative invariance between the structure of mental acts and the underlying physiological activities...... The Supermetaphor is implicit in attempts by modern scientists to find neural responses that match, quanitatively, some measure of sensation magnitutdes. And it is implicit in Freud.

Source: wiktionary

The third chapter focuses on the theme of alcohol, which is a sort of "supermetaphor" of poetic distillation, encompassing all the other metaphors.

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