Ep. 124: World in the Mind
Young Heretics
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What Is Metaphor?
In our two previous examples, louis goes on we have been concerned with thought and imagination, but not with language. But very often we were talking obout something which is not perceptible by the five senses. We use words which, in one of their meanings, refer to things or actions that are when a man says that he grasps an argument,. He is certainly not thinking that his mind has hands, or that an argument can be seized like a gun. Every one is familiar with this linguistic phenomenon, and the grammarians call it metaphor. It is a serious mistake to think that metaphor is an optional thing which poets and orators may put into their work as a deco
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