Figures of speech

The Philosophers' Magazine 56 (56):31-41 (2012)
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Abstract

We cannot explain our diverse practices for engaging with imagery through general pragmatic mechanisms. There is no general mechanism behind practices like metaphor and irony. Metaphor works the way it works; irony works the way it works.

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