ABSTRACT
Metaphors are like knots in which different philosophical problematics meet; they are intensively discussed, and sometimes run into trouble. Besides the fact that metaphors have been identified as the descriptions of things by means of words and expressions that are primarily and conventionally ascribed to something else, there is very little agreement on what metaphors factually are. Metaphor is commonly understood as the figure of speech that identifies something by means of words and expressions that are primarily ascribed to something else - a thing, a phenomenon, an activity, for example. Metaphors seem to play an extensive role in the way people interpret individual experiences and in the process of relating one kind of experience to another, which is a part of scientific research. The economic crisis was at some stage a metaphor, but it evolved into a technical term that denotes a concrete situation or, more precisely, a class of economic and interrelated states or situations.
