metaphoricity

It would, on this account of metaphoricity, be logically impossible to hold literal expression to be derivative from metaphorical usage.

Tibetan Proverbial Literature: Semantics and Metaphoricity in Context.

However, the metaphoricity of scientific language makes it impossible to separate observation and theory because there is no pure observation language or a pure theoretical language.

And who can be indifferent to the impressionistic metaphoricity of Virginia Woolf's prose, where things "quiver," "tremble" "melt" and "overflow," constantly threatening to exceed themselves?

Drawing on Derrida's discussion of the nature of metaphor, it might be concluded that the contemporary paranoid metaphorcity of bodily contamination produces a contamination of metaphoricity itself (149).

Such reciprocity is a schematic constituent of phenomena of continuity and metaphoricity, that have been constantly described throughout the primary tradition of Christian humanism in the nature of being and becoming.

Since many words can be considered metaphorical in different contexts, MIP requires a clear distinction between words that convey metaphorical meaning and those that do not, despite the fact that language generally differs in the degrees of metaphoricity.

'Metaphoricity' is dissolved into 'Nietzsche's metaphoricity' and we are thus forced, if we grant the "principle of charity" in our attempts to understand Nietzsche, to re-read anew our understanding of 'metaphor'.

February 8th 1996 Introduction In this essay I want to explore Nietzsche's short text entitled On Truth and Falsity in their Ultramoral Sense 1 and the arguments that posit metaphoricity as the central principle of the activity or existence of language.