"Certain concepts are structured almost entirely metaphorically."
> Certain concepts are structured almost entirely metaphorically. The concept Love, for example, is structured mostly in metaphorical terms: Love Is a Journey, Love Is a Patient, Love Is a Physical Force, Love Is Madness, Love Is War, etc. The concept of love has a core that is minimally structured by the subcategorization¹ Love Is an Emotion and by links to other emotions, e.g., liking. This is typical of emotional concepts, which are not clearly delineated in our experience in any direct fashion and therefore must be comprehended primarily indirectly, via metaphor. – Lakoff and Johnson, p. 84
¹ Lakoff and Johnson distinguish subcategorization (Argument Is a Kind of Conversation) from metaphor (Argument is War) but say:
> The point here is that subcategorization and metaphor are enpoints on a continuum.
If the Distributed Logjam is a good enough metaphor for concepts in the brain, there's little reason to worry about this, as the underlying mechanism is the same.