Metaphorically Speaking
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781575861586
Subjects: Philosophy Of Language; Semantics (meaning); Semantics; Philosophy; Epistemology; Linguistics; Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / General; General; Concepts; Metaphor; Semantics (Philosophy)
First sentence: tive language use. According to my analysis, the utterances that are literal are so because comprehension of the utterances is consistent with a standardized conceptualization that underlies the use of the terms, one which reflects the naive metaphysics embedded in the standardized taxonomy.