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Metaphors in Conceptual Frameworks

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What is the main focus in Post-Kantian European philosophy and cognitive linguistics?

The study of the dual function of metaphor in creating provisional meanings (correct)

The critique of traditional conceptions of metaphor grounded in truthlikeness

The analysis of the link between tenor and vehicle in metaphors

The examination of how meaning shifts in language

According to Nietzsche, what is the essence of truth in metaphors?

A provisional creation of meanings for concepts

A fixed set of human relations subject to poetic intensification

A sum of human relations subjected to rhetorical decoration

A collection of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms that are relativized (correct)

In the study of rhetoric, what are the two parts of a metaphor called?

Target domain and source domain

Likeness and similarity

Truth and truthlikeness

Tenor and vehicle (correct)

What does Nietzsche's comparison of metaphor to the Roman God Janus symbolize?

Metaphor as a bridge between past origins and future horizons of meaning Signup and view all the answers

What is the pragmatic function of metaphor in the context of the book discussed?

Providing a pragmatic service to cognition Signup and view all the answers

According to Lakoff and Johnson, how is our ordinary conceptual framework best described?

Fundamentally metaphorical Signup and view all the answers

Contrary to the 'standard view' of metaphor, what does Lakoff and Johnson propose about the relationship between metaphor and concepts?

Metaphors condition concepts Signup and view all the answers

How does Aristotle define metaphor in contrast to the 'standard view'?

The direct application of a word to another thing Signup and view all the answers

What is one significant implication of the relevance of metaphor to fields like philosophy, medicine, and grammar?

Metaphor's greater importance beyond linguistics Signup and view all the answers

What two aspects make up the Aristotelian paradigm of Metaphor according to the text?

Transference and analogy Signup and view all the answers