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Goodman, Nelson. 1992. Contraverting a contradiction: A note on metaphor and simile, reply to Tomas Kulka. Poetics Today 13 (4) : 807–808. 2 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
proposition | psychology | simile | truth and metaphor | truth value | world vision

Abstract

Goodman refutes Kulka's argument that all metaphors are true, as truth value derives from the contribution of a proposition to a well-constructed vision of the world. (J. Hitchcock in LLBA 1993, vol. 27, n. 3)