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DESCRIPTION OF METAPHOR:

Ideas as Possessions

Under this metaphor, ideas, thoughts, hopes, desires, images, etc., or events of thinking, imagining, hoping, desiring, etc., are viewed as possessions.

QUASI-SPECIAL-CASE OF:

Ideas as Physical Objects

Since possessions are typically physical objects, an important special case of the metaphor is also a special case of Ideas as Physical Objects.