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  • The book, and much of their subsequent work, is full of examples like the ARGUMENT IS WAR metaphor, such as UNCERTAINTY IS UP, UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING, ANGER IS HEATED FLUID IN A CONTAINER, and LOVE IS A JOURNEY see here for an extended list of conceptual metaphors.

    Lakoff's View of Metaphors Chris 2004

  • The book, and much of their subsequent work, is full of examples like the ARGUMENT IS WAR metaphor, such as UNCERTAINTY IS UP, UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING, ANGER IS HEATED FLUID IN A CONTAINER, and LOVE IS A JOURNEY see here for an extended list of conceptual metaphors.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Chris 2004

  • UNCERTAINTY, which is certainly what's happening now).

    Latest Articles IBD via RealClearMarkets 2010

  • 'UNCERTAINTY' (No rating, 1: 45) A taut, skillful exercise in cinematic clockwork, with dialogue largely improvised by the actors, this movie splits into two parallel stories, one a family drama, the other a thriller, after an opening scene in which young lovers (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins) meet on the Brooklyn Bridge on a Fourth of July morning. (

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • UNCERTAINTY increases risk, and risk gets priced into investment decisions.

    Matthew Yglesias » Is Stimulus Impossible 2010

  • REVOLUTIONS OF 1989-Part 3: UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF UNCERTAINTY By Kevin Stoda, Germany NOTE: This is the second par yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'REVOLUTIONS OF 1989-Part 3: UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF UNCERTAINTY By Kevin Stoda, Germany NOTE: This is the second par'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: As 2009 continues, economic crises continue to be the main headlines.

    REVOLUTIONS OF 1989-Part 3: UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF UNCERTAINTY By Kevin Stoda, Germany NOTE: This is the second par 2009

  • FINANCIAL-BAILOUT UNCERTAINTY lifted gold 2.75% on the week to $888.50 an ounce -- while November contract Nymex crude rose 4.03% on the week, to $106.89.

    Not Just Chicken Feed Anymore 2008

  • The point is that there is an UNCERTAINTY in Tt for any given year, and that the deviation is almost certainly not going to be a standard normal error but rather an unknown systematic bias with a superimposed variance that is not normal.

    Willis E on Hansen and Model Reliability « Climate Audit 2006

  • UNCERTAINTY, a fairly abstract concept, is metaphorically structured by the bodily experience of "upwardness," and UNDERSTANDING, another abstract concept, from the bodily experience of seeing.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Chris 2004

  • UNCERTAINTY, a fairly abstract concept, is metaphorically structured by the bodily experience of "upwardness," and UNDERSTANDING, another abstract concept, from the bodily experience of seeing.

    Lakoff's View of Metaphors Chris 2004

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