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Discuss 3
28 October 2009
‘We can never say ‘merely’ for metaphors, because that is what all descriptions are; we can never state just what something is, we can only describe what something is like – that is, to describe it in terms of other things that seem to us to have similar properties – and then to consider the differences.’
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