Christopher Paci’s scientific contributions

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The Scandal of Metaphor: Metaphorology and Semiotics
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January 1983

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Umberto Eco

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Christopher Paci

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... I think that all the conceptualization of metaphor after Aristotle is just an explanation or rejection of the key features discussed by Aristotle. Umberto Eco says, "… of the thousands and thousands of pages written about metaphor, few add anything of substance to the first two or three fundamental concepts stated by Aristotle" (Eco &Paci, 1983, pp217-218) [9] . We come across a minimal Aristotelianism in almost every theory of metaphor. ...

Reference:

Davidson’s concept of metaphor
The Scandal of Metaphor: Metaphorology and Semiotics
  • Citing Article
  • January 1983

Poetics Today