Metaphors of Knowledge

Transparency (to Reality)

Mirror

Recollection

Truth

Information

Vision (especially as in a "God's-eye-view")

Understanding physical and mathematical laws which carry telltale signs of universality

Observation

Representation

Participation

Reason (as participation in divine intelligence)

Reason (as innate concepts)

Intuition or hidden psychic powers

Surrender to divine will or grace

Union

Love

Ideals

Alignment

Wisdom

Architecture of the soul

Possession

Biological Mechanism

Memories stored in brain cells or their interconnections

Memories stored in neural electrical patterns

Behaviors or adaptations

Feedback circuits/transduction relationships

Extended phenotype of organism

Of Biological Inspiration

Symbiotic union of knower and known

Body, embodiment, embodied patterns, bodies of knowledge

Incorporation or digestion

Re-membering as reattaching to the body

Patterns of an ecology or a web

Combinations of body relationships (in/out, self/other, etc.)

Filters of perceptual regularities

Creativity

Imagination

Intelligence (although a careful distinction is made today where intelligence is seen as speed of using knowledge)

Discovery

Deception

Fabrications to cover power, institutions or personal needs

Projections

Perceptions formed from sensory input

Grasping leading to suffering

Corruption, transformation (e.g. well worn path from well known path)

Illusions

Cultural Product

Memes

Patterns set by cultural preferences

Customs

Narratives or stories

Rituals (especially those conveying special knowledge or enacting belief structures)

Adornment (for one to show off one's knowledge)

Habits

Tool

Empowerment

Familiarity

Capability

Holding expectations across time

Weapon

Storage

Library

Database

Body (of knowledge)

Mixed Type

Reason (as inferences from basic truths) [Clearness & Creativity]

Results of training and learning [Clearness & Cultural Product]

Feelings [Biological Mechanism or Participation]