A good case can be made that formal logic is as metaphorical as it gets.
After all one of the meanings of metaphor is "Something regarded as representative or suggestive of something else ...." ["metaphor, n. (sense 2)". OED Online. June 2015. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/117328 (accessed July 15, 2015).]
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