y. Much of the puzzle-solving activity of
normal science is of this kind, with scientists attempting to
examine, operationalize, and measure detailed implications
of the metaphorical insight upon which their research is
implicitly or explicitly based. Such confinement of attention
calls for a great deal of prior and somewhat irrational commitment
to the image of the subject of investigation, for any
one metaphorical insight provides but a partial and one-sided
view of the phenomenon to which it is applied.