Bill
I'm not sure it is right to talk about a metaphor being "True" or "False". "Apt" or "inapt", "effective" or "ineffective" maybe, but, even then, every metaphor is more or less so for a given reader. To use a metaphor is not to say, thing a is thing b, but to speak of it as if it were, for the purposes of illuminating some aspect(s) of it, no?
Philip
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