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Colin Murray Turbayne on Truth

1916–2006 Australia

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It is a confusion to present the items of one sort in the idioms of another -- without awareness. For to do this is not just to cross two different sorts; it is to confuse them. It is to mistake, for example, the theory for the fact, the procedure for the process, the myth for history, the model for the thing and the metaphor for the face of literal truth.

The Myth of Metaphor (1962)

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