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The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds - Synthese Library Eric Steinhart 2001 edition
The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds - Synthese Library
Eric Steinhart
Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; I'll argue that some sentences in natural languages like English have multiple meanings: "Juliet is the sun" has (at least) two meanings: the literal meaning "(Juliet is the sunkIT" and the metaphorical meaning "(Juliet is the sun) MET".
263 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography