PHIL 2504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dreamwork, Perlocutionary Act
31 Mar 2018
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Metaphors force us to attend to a (often novel or surprising) likeness between things. Linguistically, metaphorical meaning is just the same as literal meaning. Metaphors work because of psychological mechanisms (the framing effect ) and are special just because of their psychological effects. There are no rules governing the generation or interpretation of metaphor. There is no test for metaphor that does not call for taste . Metaphors are open-ended, non-propositional, and not susceptible to paraphrase. Review: questionable implications of the causal account. There is no cognitive difference between word salad and metaphorical language. There are no better or worse metaphors or ways of interpreting a metaphor. There is (probably) no such thing as metaphorical truth. Black illustrates what he calls the commonsense of the production and understanding of metaphor. He accomplishes this through an analysis of davidson"s remark. The commonsense of metaphor is rejected by davidson. Black attacks both davidson"s arguments against his account of metaphor, and.
