The Nature of Metaphor and Scientific Description

  • Machamer P
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Abstract

Metaphors and similar tropes deal primarily with concepts and cognition, with the intellectual life of perceiving, understanding and acting. However, I will talk about language, and especially about predicates and verbs. However, not all cognition is linguistic, in any interesting sense.1 Translate what I say about language into your own peculiar locution for cognition. If you believe that the linguistic mode causes problems for my arguments, I would be delighted to hear about them, and see what can be done to solve them.

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Machamer, P. (2000). The Nature of Metaphor and Scientific Description. In Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences (pp. 35–52). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9442-4_3

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