Metaphors are lies are metaphors; the antimetabole
“Truth was long viewed as consisting primarily in mental correspondence with reality: true thoughts represent things as they are, […] and true utterances translate the true thoughts into communicable signs.” (Hallett, 2011: 34)
This definition of truth did not mention metaphors. Indeed, for many linguistic scholars who have carried researches about metaphors (Levin, Searle, Davidson, Lakoff or Johnson, to name but a few), it has been agreed that these figures of speech are lies, ...
Secondly, we can, from the previous example, draw the conclusion that
metaphors are nothing but semantic falsehood; in short, they are lies.....
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