LessonsAl-Sakkaki on Derivative Metaphor, Implicit Metaphor, and the Role of Imaginative CluesQuiz

دعوى السبعية للمنية مع التصريح بلفظ المنية، وفيه نظر
To claim predatory character for death while explicitly naming death is open to objection.

The objection is that the word “death” still denotes death in its established sense. Merely surrounding it with a predator's attributes does not show that the word for death has itself been borrowed for some other lexical meaning.

The rhetorical claim and departure from a word's literal sense cannot simply be equated. The reply therefore has to investigate both the word's conventional assignment and the particular respect in which it is used.

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Objection to claiming predatorhood for death

Al-Sakkaki on Derivative Metaphor, Implicit Metaphor, and the Role of Imaginative Clues

دعوى السبعية للمنية مع التصريح بلفظ المنية، وفيه نظر
To claim predatory character for death while explicitly naming death is open to objection.

The objection is that the word “death” still denotes death in its established sense. Merely surrounding it with a predator's attributes does not show that the word for death has itself been borrowed for some other lexical meaning.

The rhetorical claim and departure from a word's literal sense cannot simply be equated. The reply therefore has to investigate both the word's conventional assignment and the particular respect in which it is used.