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Metaphors: Figures of the Mind (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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Metaphors: Figures of the Mind (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Series: Library of Rhetorics, 4
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This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is
not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself.
Rather it is concerned with the argument from metaphor. In other
words, it is about what I think we can learn from metaphor and the
possible consequences of this lesson for a more adequate
understanding, for instance, of our mental processes, the
possibilities and limitations of our reasoning, the strictures of
propositionality, the cognitive effect of fictional projections and
so on. In this sense it is not, strictly speaking, a contribution
to metaphorology; instead, it is an attempt to define the place of
metaphor in the world of overall human intellectual activity,
exemplary thematized here in the span that ranges from problems
relating to the articulation of meanings up to general issues of
creativity. Most of the aspects discussed, therefore, are examined
not so much for the sake of gaining some new knowledge about
metaphor (work conducted in the "science of metaphor" is presently
so huge that an extra attempt to spell out another theory of
metaphor may have an infiatory effect); the basic strategy of this
book is to view metaphor within the complex of language usage and
language competence, in human thought and action, and, finally, to
see in what philosophically relevant way it improves our knowledge
of ourselves. Certainly, by adopting this basic strategy we also
simultaneously increase our knowledge of metaphors, of their
functions and importance.
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