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Using metaphors for visualizing concepts

Using metaphors for visualizing concepts

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Using metaphors for visualizing concepts

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- [Instructor] Sometimes the concept you want to visualize is so clear and simple that you can use a literal representation of the word. For instance, if you need an image to represent computer, you'll probably show, wait for it, yeah, a computer. But other times the concept you're showing may be better explained via a metaphor rather than the literal representation of the word. For instance, if you are communicating love, you'll probably show a heart. Wait, wait, no, not that kind of heart, this kind. So that actually gets to a really interesting idea. First of all, the metaphor for love is the heart because we think of emotions coming from that part of the body. But rather than the biological image, it's been abstracted to the symbolic heart, whose use in this way dates back to possibly as early as the 13th century, before that, this would've been a terrible visual to depict love. Go back about 1500 years before the…

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