Metaphors: Figures of the Mind

Metaphors: Figures of the Mind by Z. Radman.

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself. Rather it is concerned with the argument from metaphor. In other words, it is about what I think we can learn from metaphor and the possible consequences of this lesson f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Radman, Z. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Library of Rhetorics, 4
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophy and science.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Limits of Literalness
  • 2. The Polysemic Chain of Meaning
  • 3. Difficulties With Diagnosing the Death of a Metaphor
  • 4. The Metaphoric Measure Of Meaning in Science
  • 5. How is Radically New Knowledge Possible? Or: Bridging the New and the Old in a Metaphorical Way
  • 6. How to Make Our Ideas Clear With Metaphors
  • 7. Toward a Metaphor-Body Problem
  • 8. Artificial Intelligence and the Natural Body
  • 9. Key-Metaphors: A Case of Cross-Contextual Cognition
  • 10. Of Mind, Metaphysics and Other Matters
  • 11. How to Make Worlds With Metaphors
  • 12. Metaphorical Projections of Possible Worlds
  • Afterthoughts
  • Name Index.

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