ABSTRACT
It is important to recognize that the discovery of a vast number of unknown patterns alone do not explain the meaning of interesting trends, relationships, and dynamics of empirical observations over space and time (Gendlin 1995). On the contrary, it is a metaphor, and only after it makes sense can an unknown set of patterns from a GKDD process be interpreted and understood by an expert of an application domain. In general, metaphors have been proposed as artifacts of understanding, specically understanding one kind of conceptual domain in terms of another. They are not just a pattern or a logical form. Johnson (1987) proposes metaphors as a “concrete and dynamic, embodied imaginative schemata,” which are surely not just logical patterns, images, or diagrams. Moreover, Lakoff (1987) argues that metaphors are something “nonpropositional,” which should not be thought of as if they were commonalities, classes, structures, or image schemata, although we might be interested to formulate those.
