On the Alleged Pervasiveness of Metaphor
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Second International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | metaphor; pervasiveness; agrument of excluded opposites |
| Description | There is a widespread opinion that metaphor pervades natural language. First, I shall provide two simple worries or arguments against this thesis – a historical one and a systematic one. Then I will proceed to give a precise formulation of the pervasiveness thesis in order to escape the criticism. Finally, I am going to indicate three approaches of how the pervasiveness thesis could be understood and reasonably maintained. |