The Construction of Scientific Knowledge through Metaphor

That metaphor is used in science is hardly a contentious issue. Extensive literature on the topic testifies to the widespread employment of metaphor in scientific texts. According to the received view, however, metaphor is a periphrastic 'as-if' device which has no bearing on the deliberative content of scientific theories. Metaphorical reasoning is taken to be epiphenomenal, a corollary to which is that metaphorical meaning is, in principle, reducible to equivalent literal meaning (for discussi

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Wydawnictwo: inne
Data wydania: b.d
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ISBN: 9788323123187
Liczba stron: 272