Some Reflections on Seeing-as, Metaphor-Grasping and Imagining

In this paper I examine the frequently made claim that grasping a metaphor is a kind of ‘seeing-as’. I describe several ways in which it might be thought that metaphor-grasping is importantly similar to seeing-as, such that an extension of the latter category is though justified to include the forme...

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Main Author: Kathleen Stock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2013-05-01
Series:Aisthesis
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/656