Meta Ontology

The very notion of transposition, the constant theme of a theory of tropes, brings operations into play that legitimate a mixed approach involving psychology and linguistics.The recognition that science cannot do without metaphor---that all theories are elaborations of basic metaphors or systems of metaphors---is only one part of a larger emerging awareness of the pervasiveness of metaphor in all language.Metaphor always has about it precisely this revealing of hitherto unexpected connectives which we may note in the progressions of a dream.In 1974 I published a psycholinguistic study of metaphor (Frentz 1974, 125-33). Scaled down and carved up from my master's thesis, it was a "crucial experiment" that used some ..