Rightfully understood, metaphor proves itself capable of as simple and straightforward a truth as literal language.
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The Principle of Expressibilty
The tenet that “Whatever can be meant can be said” belittles poetry as inessential to linguistic communication.
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Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchVol 31 No 3 (1971)pp. 429-432 (4 pages) Available to print and download on JSTOR. Citations
Warranting Metaphor
We cannot tell whether a sentence is true or false until we know whether it is used literally or metaphorically.