Edit to add: I think almost every concept we use in life is part metaphor, part not, and the difference is one of degree and not kind. I was definitely surprised to learn this, or at least to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Almost all human thinking is part metaphor.
Words have uses not meanings. Definitions are abstractions.
In otherwise, everything is (in part) a metaphor.
Edit to add: I think almost every concept we use in life is part metaphor, part not, and the difference is one of degree and not kind. I was definitely surprised to learn this, or at least to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Almost all human thinking is part metaphor.
Words have uses not meanings. Definitions are abstractions.
In otherwise, everything is (in part) a metaphor.