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>I suspect that metaphors are the tools of cargo cults while analogies are the tools used by those that actually understand a system in order to convey it to those that do not.

Are the metaphors actual tools, or more like metaphorical tools?

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Crappy tools are still tools.

It's a metaphor, metaphors aren't literally physical work implements.

And tools are not limited to physical implements.

They aren't, we can easily extend the concept by using it as metaphor.

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