Networks between concepts
If a metaphor is heavily developed within a metaphor space (lots of Networks between concepts), it can have the effect of providing a warp portal to other spaces, facilitating the joining of distant ones There is a nuance of "objective" implicit in "knowledge". For example, right now the reader here has "drop and break" connected to "glass cup".
But in the future, people living in zero-gravity or low-gravity colonies will not connect this association because they can retrieve it before it cracks.
Even in a world where unbreakable plastic cups dominate history and "glass cups" are only found in museums, the associations don't connect.
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