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Analogy is an important channel for mankind to make sense of the world. A metaphor, if it is used occasionally, only addresses a specific question at a specific time and space.
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This statement has been used widely and been handed down from the mouth of the ancient Roman orator and rhetorician Cicero’s (106–43 BCE) own mouth. See G.G. Smith (ed.) Yilishabai shiqi piping wenxuan [Elizabethan critical essays], Vol. 1, pp. 369–370.
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Yue, D. (2016). The Mirror Metaphor in Chinese and Western Poetics. In: China and the West at the Crossroads. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1116-0_19
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