seeing the whole of everyday language as organized by metaphor. To that extent they too are inclined to argue that a philosophically ‘objectivist’ view of the world is untenable. Such linguistic work has attempted to show that we actually think, every day, through interlocking conceptual systems based on metaphors, which cannot be reduced in any way to a ‘more literal’ language and so are very unlikely to be simply or systematically compatible with one another.