Abstract: Hobbes's most notorious condemnation of metaphor, which we already quoted at the beginning of chapter 1, is in itself an argument-by-metaphor in three steps (which are here separated as paragraphs for ease of analysis): (1a) To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; is the , Encrease of , the ; and the Benefit of man-kind, the . (1b) And on the contrary, Metaphors, and senslesse and ambiguous words, are like ; (1c) and reasoning upon them, is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities; and their end, contention, and sedition, or contempt. (Hobbes 1996: 36)
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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