La metafora considerata nei suoi molteplici usi

Metaphor has often been seen as tightly associated with both aesthetics and cognition, as well as with other aesthetic and cognitive phenomena such as imagination, symbol, allegory, analogy and simile. This article offers a theory of metaphor that accounts for such aesthetic and cognitive associatio...

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Published inCollana del Centro studi beni culturali e ambientali. no. 24
Main Author Contesi, Filippo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Milano University Press 26.01.2023
Subjects
analogy; imagination; metaphor; method of abstraction
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Summary:Metaphor has often been seen as tightly associated with both aesthetics and cognition, as well as with other aesthetic and cognitive phenomena such as imagination, symbol, allegory, analogy and simile. This article offers a theory of metaphor that accounts for such aesthetic and cognitive associations. The theory is based on a suitably interpreted version of a tool originally developed in an epistemic context, viz. Floridi and Sanders’ method of abstraction.
ISSN:2039-9251
2039-9251
DOI:10.54103/2039-9251/19759