Contrasting views of metaphor as "a verbal matter" and as "an act of mind" were presented yesterday by Marshall Cohen, Junior Fellow in Philosophy, in the first of six Lowell Institute lectures on "The Meaning of Metaphor." Cohen went on to discuss the semantical properties of metaphor.
He will continue the series on Thursday at 5:15 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Boston Public Library, speaking on "The Semantics of Metaphor."
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