Models and metaphors

Ithaca, N.Y.,: Cornell University Press (1962)
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Author Max Black argues that language should conform to the discovered regularities of experience it is radically mistaken to assume that the conception of language is a mirror of reality.

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original Black, Max (1962) "Models and metaphors". Cornell University Press

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