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Metaphor

Max Black

Argues a live metaphor is not a decorated comparison that could be paraphrased away without loss, but an interaction between two ideas in which each reorganises how we see the other.

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What Metaphors MeanDonald Davidson, 1978Argues a metaphor has no special metaphorical meaning at all beyond its plain, usually false, literal meaning, and that what a metaphor does is provoke a way of seeing rather than assert some paraphraseable further content.

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