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Boyd, Richard. 1979. Metaphor and theory change: What is 'metaphor' a metaphor for? In Ortony, Andrew, ed. Metaphor and thought. Cambridge University Press. pp. 356–408.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

metaphor

Annotation

B. argues that there exists an important class of metaphors which play a role in the development and articulation of theories in relatively mature sciences, and that the use of metaphor is one of the many devices available to the scientific community to accomplish the task of accommodation of language to the causal structure of the world.

Reviewed by

Kuhn, Thomas S. 1979. Metaphor in science. In Ortony, Andrew, ed. Metaphor and thought. Cambridge University Press. pp. 409–419.

Pylyshyn, Zenon W. 1979. Metaphorical imprecision and the 'top-down' research strategy. In Ortony, Andrew, ed. Metaphor and thought. Cambridge University Press. pp. 420–436.