Metaphors are not just decorative rhetorical devices that make speech pretty. They are fundamental tools for thinking about the world and acting on the world. The language we use to make a better world matters; words matter; metaphors matter. Words have consequences - ethical, social and legal ones, as well as political and economic ones. They need to be used 'responsibly'. They also need to be...

In his brief communication, Lynn represents himself as providing additional “caveats regarding the potential risk of pseudomemories and the dangers of reifying metaphors offered to clients in the process of clinical hypnosis,” correcting an oversight in a previous communication on the hidden observer (Lynn, Mare, Kall, Segal, & Sivec, 1994). He indicates that phenomena that he designates as met...

This study investigates whether understanding up/down metaphors as well as semantically homologous literal sentences activates embodied representations online. Participants read orientational literal sentences (e.g., she climbed up the hill), metaphors (e.g., she climbed up in the company), and abstract sentences with similar meaning to the metaphors (e.g., she succeeded in the company). In Exp...

Runge Kutta (RUN) is an up-to-date and well-founded metaheuristic algorithm. The RUN algorithm aims to find the global best in solving problems by going beyond traps of metaphors. For this purpose, enhanced solution quality mechanism used avoid local optimum solutions increase convergence speed. Although offers promising solutions, it seen that has shortcomings, especially high dimensional mult...

The inner world of the child is a community of archetypes potentially available for the child's healthy ego development. Many forces limit and prohibit their utility. Play therapy in the context of a hypnotic relationship can potentiate these archetypes into becoming "playful metaphors" for healing and strengthening ego development. In this article, the author describes her use of playful metap...

Traditionally, a logic program is built up to reason about atomic first-order formulas. The key idea of parametrized logic programming is that, instead of atomic first-order formulas, a parametrized logic program reasons about formulas of a given parameter logic. Of course, the main challenge is to define the semantics of such general programs. In this work we introduce the novel definitions al...

In this paper, we introduce a possibilistic argumentation-based decision making framework which is able to capture uncertain information and exceptions/defaults. In particular, we define the concept of a possibilistic decision making framework which is based on a possibilistic default theory, a set of decisions and a set of prioritized goals. This set of goals captures user preferences related ...

There have been several evaluation mechanisms proposed for computing query answers based on the well-founded semantics, for programs with negation. However, these techniques are costly; in particular, for the special case of modularly stratiied programs, Ordered Search is more eecient than the general purpose techniques. However, Ordered Search is applicable only to modularly stratiied programs...

In order to come out of the typical mould of interface metaphors used for software, new inspirations are sought from Dnyaneshwari. Dnyaneshwari, one of the best Indian saint literatures uses numerous metaphors for depicting complex and abstract philosophical information. It is proposed to have variety of Interface Agents having different behavioral styles for guiding the software users. The cho...

Richard Baskerville and Nancy Russo have shown how particular supervisor-student relationships can be seen as one of a number of metaphors, for example, a journey, a marriage, apprenticeship and servitude. In this paper we develop this idea further by suggesting problems associated with situations where students and supervisors might be proceeding on the basis of different metaphors, which we r...