文章 の意味は？

The first, colorfully put, is this: Metaphors do not come singly, like hermits. They live in groups. Again colorfully, thought is not just abstract, rarified. Its anchor is a human body, in living experience. These are attractive hypotheses (as we know only too well, for our introduction and criticism of these ideas usually leaves our audiences wanting them to be true, and our criti- cism to be in vain).