aptness, defined as how the vehicle is well able to cover the salient features of the tenor (e.g., oil is like liquid gold vs. a train is like a worm), is claimed to be an important factor in the preference for metaphors over similes, or vice versa. this study was an attempt to test for the supposed correlation between the perceived degree of aptness and a priori stylistic preference for metaph...

We provide a utility representation theorem for the revealed preference of an agent choosing in arbitrary space endowed with separable partial order. The result can be applied to construct new tests choices over infinite consumption streams and probability distribution spaces, among other cases interest economics. As illustration, we best-responding behavior strategic games horizon problems.