LessonsImplicit and Imaginative Metaphor: Competing Accounts and al-Sakkaki’s DefinitionsQuiz

من غير تأويل في الوضع
Without interpretive adjustment to the assigned sense.

This condition becomes important when the speaker appears to keep an expression within its known semantic category but claims figuratively that another object belongs to that category. A brave man called a “lion” is not literally a lion; the point is to convey his courage through the animal’s force.

If a theory handles this by imagined inclusion within the class “lion”, “use in the assigned meaning” alone might fail to exclude it from literal usage. The added restriction signals that a literal use does not depend on that figurative claim.

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The restriction “without interpretive adjustment”

Implicit and Imaginative Metaphor: Competing Accounts and al-Sakkaki’s Definitions

من غير تأويل في الوضع
Without interpretive adjustment to the assigned sense.

This condition becomes important when the speaker appears to keep an expression within its known semantic category but claims figuratively that another object belongs to that category. A brave man called a “lion” is not literally a lion; the point is to convey his courage through the animal’s force.

If a theory handles this by imagined inclusion within the class “lion”, “use in the assigned meaning” alone might fail to exclude it from literal usage. The added restriction signals that a literal use does not depend on that figurative claim.