Daarop geënt in onze cultuur een vergelijkbare redenering wb labor, en time:
* Labor is a kind of activity (recall: an activity is a substance)
can be quantified fairly precisely, (in termen van time!)
can be assigned a value per unit
is used up progressively as it serves its purposes
en dit is weer de basis voor de time is a resource metafoor:
* Time is a kind of (abstract) substance,
can be quantified fairly precisely,
can be assigned a value per unit
is used up progressively as it serves its purposes