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If the robot is a conscious machine, with adaptive programming, then the contrast between men and robots breaks down-at which point it becomes question-begging to keep using "robot" as a pejorative metaphor.
Triablogue steve 2010
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"It's obvious that when the Bible talks about God's emotions it is speaking in metaphor."
Valerie Tarico: Psychology of God: Do Christians Believe God Has Emotions? Valerie Tarico 2010
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"It's obvious that when the Bible talks about God's emotions it is speaking in metaphor."
Valerie Tarico: Psychology of God: Do Christians Believe God Has Emotions? Valerie Tarico 2010
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In fact "Microsoft is Dead" was what we in the trade call a metaphor.
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I certainly do: it's what we in the trade call a metaphor.
No (Wo)man is a (Genomic) Island glyn moody 2007
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Such a transference of a name Thomas calls a metaphor.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARMAND MAURER 1968
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It is the Golden Age of which poets have sung and high raised seers have told in metaphor.
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When the bible speaks of partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you are reading what is called a metaphor.
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When the bible speaks of partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you are reading what is called a metaphor.
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There is, we're told, a new rhetorical form called a metaphor.
Ridiculopathy.com 2010
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