Myth of Metaphor

by Colin M. Turbayne

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872492508
• ISBN13: 9780872492509
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Required Reading

This book analyzes the central role the metaphors play in human thought. Metaphors reveal and highlight certainaspects as well as hide other aspects. As scientists we use theoretical models to understand the real world constantly. Thefact these models are metaphors is crucial to understanding many debates about the realism and lack thereof of scientific theories. I am surprised that the set of ideas contained in this book is so little known and discussed in academic circles. Ihave not read them, but more recent books like Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By probably cover the same ground.