Carolyn L Burke wrote: > > I think a language that fully prevents metaphoric content would need > to meet two conditions: it would be fully definitional, and to do > that, you'd need a rather interesting, if not impossible, complete > ontology of the universe. In other words, you'd need to be able to > refer to anything in the universe uniquely and successfully without > referencing other things in it by metaphor. So not: "Yeah, well, a > cat is like a dog with more attitude and a penchant for mice." > But this is not a metaphor!!! This is a _simile_.
A metaphor is: "A cat is a dog with more attitude and a penchant for mice". A fully logical language would reject the previus sentence as false, because a cat is not a dog - GAME OVER. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
