Peirce on Metaphor

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 20 (4):453 - 468 (1984)
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This article examines peirce's technical use of metaphor. in doing so it looks at certain aspects of his semiotics and, in particular, his division of signs into icons, indexes, and symbols. the upshoot is that, for peirce, metaphor plays a central role in artistic thought while analogy is central to scientific thought

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