Dialectic functions by converting everything it touches into figure but metaphor is a means of perceiving one thing in terms of another. (Marshall McLuhan)

Dialectic functions by converting everything it touches into figure but metaphor is a means of perceiving one thing in terms of another.

Marshall McLuhan

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