If you want to be truly pendatic, the “mind’s eye” and “picturing” are analogies and not metaphors.
The mind’s eye is like that of a physical, sensory eye, but doesn’t replace it.
Analogy: “Joe looks at you, his eyes like gemstones” Metaphor: “Joe looks at your with his gemstones”
Analogy: “I am picturing it in my mind’s eye as if I had a second pair of eyes” Metaphor: “I am picturing it with my second pair of eyes”
If you want to be even more pendantic, we could have a Idealist discussion of the metaphysics of sense and that all pictures are mental pictures, since the image doesn’t exist the instant that photons are received by the retina, but are accumulated through a series of processes in the brain—particularly the visual cortex.
If you want to be truly pendatic, the “mind’s eye” and “picturing” are analogies and not metaphors.
The mind’s eye is like that of a physical, sensory eye, but doesn’t replace it.
Analogy: “Joe looks at you, his eyes like gemstones”
Metaphor: “Joe looks at your with his gemstones”
Analogy: “I am picturing it in my mind’s eye as if I had a second pair of eyes”
Metaphor: “I am picturing it with my second pair of eyes”
If you want to be even more pendantic, we could have a Idealist discussion of the metaphysics of sense and that all pictures are mental pictures, since the image doesn’t exist the instant that photons are received by the retina, but are accumulated through a series of processes in the brain—particularly the visual cortex.
Your first point is a good one And your second point successfully annoyed me