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From: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie)
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Subject: What is the difference between a metaphor and a mental model?
Keywords: mental models, metaphors
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Date: 17 Oct 89 05:01:15 GMT
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It seems to me that you can find metaphors but you can't find mental models. Is
this my imagination? Please don't tell me that a mental model is a bunch of
metaphors. I was browsing thru Donald Normans book "User Centered System
Design" and noticed that there is no index entry for metaphors, just for mental
models. So where have all the metaphors gone?

Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

--Thom Gillespie