Full Idea
The fact that most metaphors involve category mistakes is not a coincidence. …A big part of them is to do with connecting objects and properties that normally seem to belong to disjoint domains.
Gist of Idea
Metaphors tend to involve category mistakes, by joining disjoint domains
Source
Ofra Magidor (Category Mistakes [2013], 3.5)
Book Reference
Magidor,Ofra: 'Category Mistakes' [OUP 2013], p.66
A Reaction
Metaphysica poets took disjoint domains and 'yoked them together by violence', according to Dr Johnson.