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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 October 2011
      15 July 1982
      ISBN:
      9780511897627
      9780521110860
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511897627
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 260 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Philosophy, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    The attention of philosophers. linguists and literary theorists has been converging on the diverse and intriguing phenomena of analogy of meaning:the different though related meanings of the same word, running from simple equivocation to paronymy, metaphor and figurative language. So far, however, their attempts at explanation have been piecemeal and inconclusive and no new and comprehensive theory of analogy has emerged. This is what James Ross offers here. In the first full treatment of the subject since the fifteenth century, he argues that analogy is a systematic and universal feature of natural languages, with identifiable and law-like characteristics which explain how the meanings of words in a sentence are interdependent. Throughout he contrasts his with classical and medieval views.

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