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The metaphysics that still dominates science and enthralls the minds of men is nothing but a metaphor, and a limited one.

— Colin Murray Turbayne The Myth of Metaphor (1962)

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In short, the use of metaphor involves both the awareness of duality of sense and the pretense that the two different senses are one.

The Myth of Metaphor (1962)

There is a remedy against the domination imposed, not by generals, statesmen, and men of action, whose power dissolves when they retire, but by the great sort-crossers, whose power increases when they die- the remedy of becoming aware of metaphor...

The Myth of Metaphor (1962)

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)

However appropriate in one sense a good metaphor may be, in another sense there is something inappropriate about it. This inappropriateness results from the use of a sign in a sense different from the usual...

The Myth of Metaphor (1962)

That well known distinction between knowing that and knowing how fits the learning of a language....That is, we must distinguish between knowing how to speak or listen to words and knowing that about them. Learning a language is primarily the former.

The Myth of Metaphor (1962)

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