Laozi's thoughts involve cosmism, ontology, philosophy and political science."Tao", as the core of Laozi's thoughts, has cosmogenetic and ontological meanings.
They establish an informative and instructive externalist theoretical infrastructure of the perceptual-sensuous stratum of the metaphorical medium, which is internally linked to its ontological character.
Aristotle has a particular interest in the birth of tragedy, but, unlike Nietzsche and many influenced by him, doesn't attribute any ontological significance to its genesis story.
A containment metaphor is an ontological metaphor in which some concept is represented as (i) having an inside and outside, and (ii) capable of holding something else.
The theories that may lead us towards an ontological characterization of metaphors are mainly, and naturally, the visualist-formalist theories that were formulated in the late 1960s and onwards.
Again, Descartes used this to illustrate his process of doubting empirical and ontological beliefs, but the same thought process can also be applied when considering how we should spend our time.