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Formulating the Problem If you hear somebody say,“Sally is a block of ice,” or “Sam is a pig,” you are likely to assume that the speaker does not mean what he says literally, but that he is speaking metaphorically. Furthermore, you are not likely to have very much trouble figuring out what he means. If he says,“Sally is a prime number between 17 and 23,” or “Bill is a barn [Book Review]
In Maite Ezcurdia & Robert J. Stainton (eds.), The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy. Broadview Press. pp. 466 (2013)
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