Thus to the plain man there may be no metaphor in Aristotle… - Colin Murray Turbayne

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Thus to the plain man there may be no metaphor in Aristotle's "substance", Descartes' "machine of nature," Newtonian "force" and "attraction," Thomas Young's "kinetic energy" and Michelangelo's figure of Leda. Placed in their customary contexts these present nothing to him but the face of literal truth. To the initiated, however, who are aware of the "gross original" senses as well as the now literal senses , they may become metaphors. There are no metaphors per se....

Colin Murray Turbayne

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About Colin Murray Turbayne

Colin Murray Turbayne ( 7 February 1916 - 16 May 2006) was an Australian-American philosopher who specialized in the writings of the empiricist George Berkeley while lecturing for over three decades at the University of Rochester. He is also noted for his research into the use and abuse of the linguistic metaphors in the historical writings of several other noted philosophers and scientists of the western tradition in his book The Myth of Metaphor.

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