Philosophy · Philosophy of Language
A topic within Philosophy of Language, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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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.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyDonald Davidson
Argues 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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