Al-Kindī's First philosophy and cognate texts by Ivry, A

“…Though he speaks in "First Philosophy" of the accidental nature of all existence and the dependence of all being upon God the Creator, the "truly one" in relation to whom all else is only "metaphorically one", he also talks there and elsewhere of causality and of substance in a way that indicates he believes in its practical, if not theoretical, autonomy. …”

A new green deal for climate challenges and urban regeneration by Alessandro Claudi de St. Mihiel

“…The energy crisis and the protection of the environment are global emergencies, and the challenge is to create architectures with zero consumption and zero emissions, gentle machines to explore the relationship between building and nature in which, paraphrasing Renzo Piano «the roofing of buildings is metaphorically a roof that breathes to the rhythm of nature, or rather a portion of park that flies». …”
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comparative study of Saadi's Gulistan and Yoshida's Essays in Idleness by Gholamreza Kafi, Mohammad Barfar

“…Structured as a collection of poems and stories (metaphorically as different types of roses), the text features minimalist plots, expressed with precise language and psychological insight. …”
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The Effect of Quantum Management Skills on Readiness for Change of University staff with the Mediating Role of Organizational Agility by samira ali sofi, samaneh salimi

“…Quantum skills in management try to use the laws, concepts, and principles of quantum theory in the form of metaphor and guidance to solve management problems and describe and explain organizational phenomena. …”
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“Searching for order at all levels”. Antonio Lima-de-Faria (July 4, 1921 – December 27, 2023) by Stefano Serafini, Tatyana S. Turova

“…This then relegates it to that metaphor of annihilation, which is accidentality. …”
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A Comparative Study of Quantum Management, Human Resource Productivity and Organizational Empathy in Higher Education (Case Study: Lorestan Universities and Lorestan University of... by maryam nazarzadeh, Iraj nikpay, abas madandar arani

“…Case study In this study, all employees of Lorestan University and Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, including full-time and part-time employees, contract and formal and pact forces have been working in these universities; has been reviewed as a case study.Theoretical framework Manpower productivity is the maximum appropriate use of manpower in order to achieve the goals of the organization with the minimum time and cost (Azadi, 2014).Quantum management is a fully operational skill for managers, which fits with the characteristics of organizations in the last century. This metaphor for managers' behaviors is derived from quantum theory, which is derived from the field of physics (Golshan, 2003).The existence of a sense of empathy among the members of an organization is called organizational empathy. …”
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A Comparative study of Daiva's Sin and its Evolution in the Stories of Ancient Iran and Ta'ziehs of Daiva's Tying Thumb Based on Six Poetic Verses by Mahdi mohamadi, Adel Meghdadian, Abolfazl Tajik

“…The general meaning of the demon as a metaphor of the devil, Iblis, Satan, the Giant, the Jinn, the Al , davālpā , Nasnas and other evil creatures can be traced in the oral and official texts of the Islamic period (Ebrahimi, 2013, p. 71). in the literature of religious myths, such as the fiction literature of taziyeh, these jinns are also referred to as demons. …”
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Analyzing the Quantum Leadership's Dimensions, Components and indexes of the Broadcasting Organization in the field of Social Network with Delphi Fuzzi Method by Roozbeh Hajizadeh Majdi, Shahram Fatahi, Iraj Ranjbar

“…Some thinkers believe that these human communities are a kind of appearance of Habermas' concept of public sphere in virtual space (Oudlajani & Naqib al-Sadat, 2021).Designing the principles of new sciences requires knowledge of leadership techniques in a modern organization, so that these technologies and principles provide a new metaphor for the life of the organization and leadership work. …”
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Before reflexivity comes preflexivity by Anna Engstam

“…I draw inspiration for this metaphor from the work of Hannah Arendt (1959), whose writings on “the human condition” are both eloquent and insightful. …”
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In and out of the mind in Greek tragedy by Padel, R, Padel, Ruth Sofia

“…This chapter concentrates on the ways available to the contemporary audience of judging the people they observed acting on the stage. The metaphor of the mirror, which is both self-revealing and other-revealing is used first in its other-revealing capacity: the mirror of friendship and 'homilia', the best available way of judging another person. …”

Systems biology and cancer, [Editorial] by Soto, A, Sonnenschein, C, Maini, P

“…Curiously, as vitalism dwindled among biologists in the 20th century, physicists like Schrödinger (1944) and Elsasser (1987) were the ones that tried to understand biological order and were prepared to find new laws that applied only to living matter.2 No new laws resulted from this search, but from the emerging field of information theories, biologists adopted information as the metaphor for the study of biological organization.3 This, however, has not produced the desired effects either, probably because the attempts to formalize this approach failed, which in turn suggests that it was conceptually wrong. …”

The theology of Vladimir Nikolaievich Lossky: an exposition and critique by Williams, R

“…The Greek patristic language about meeting God in 'darkness' is simply a 'dogmatic metaphor' for this experience, complementing, not contradicting the imagery of 'light': darkness and light together here represent the experience of transcending the sphere of the intellect. …”

Built experiences. History as a barometer of contemporaneity by Emilio Faroldi

“…Buildings, like men, are living, pulsating beings in continuous evolution; and the city, to use an oxymoron, is their natural environment. Moving beyond the metaphor of architecture – referred to by Goethe’s as “petrified music” – and widening our horizons, it is worth noting that every human sphere regards the history of society as the engine of contemporary design. …”
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Architecture: from time of mind to time of nature by Ettore Rocca

“…That the building is like an animal body is an issue repeated over and over again in Alberti’s De re aedificatoria (Alberti, 1485). It may seem a nice metaphor referring to the holistic character of the body, which is also present in the building. …”
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Perspectives on divine action: reflections on the theological legitimacy of approaches to divine action in the V.O./C.T.N.S. series “scientific perspectives on divine action.” by Cross, S

“…The ambiguity in the relationship between model and metaphor is then employed to evaluate the role that "causal joint" plays in framing the science-theology debate over divine action. …”

Time and Architecture by Massimo Lauria, Riccardo Pollo

“…In a historical perspective, such as that suggested by Stefano Della Torre, the city is a living material of men and artifacts. The Mumfordian metaphor of the “mold” can therefore be interpreted, outside of determinisms no longer acceptable, in a dynamic meaning in which history, culture and matter find relationships outside of ideological visions that enhance parts, or eras, at the expense of others. …”
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Future scenarios. A cinematic perspective by François Penz

“…Ballard’s brilliant opening sentence could be construed as summarising today’s world events – a thoroughly unhinged and disturbed world and for which Ballard’s High-Rise can, in part, act as a metaphor. Ballard’s vision of 1975 was subsequently successfully translated for the screen by Ben Wheatly and Amy Jump in 2015. …”
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ICTE 2013 : Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Transportation Engineering : October 19-20, 2013, Chengdu, China / by Peng, Qiyuan, editor, Wang, Kelvin C.P., editor