The Bactra Review Cognition in the Wild
He does not mean this in the sense in which George Lakoff, Mark Johnson and
their school claim that cognition is based on metaphors. But I suspect
Hutchins is one of those people who use ``metaphor'' as a synecdoche for
``figure of speech,'' and are unclear on the distinction between a figure of
speech and a hypothesis. (The precise use of words is not among his
strengths.)