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In relation to the kind of literal meaning that belongs to the word.

A word may be considered within different conventional domains: linguistic, legal-religious, or customary. Judging whether a use falls outside its assigned meaning requires identifying the relevant domain; a change relative to one domain need not be a change relative to every domain.

The restriction “kind of literal sense” therefore specifies the benchmark for the judgment. Confusing a word’s etymological meaning with its established technical or customary meaning can distort the classification of a particular use.

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The type to which an expression’s literal sense belongs

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

بالنسبة إلى نوع حقيقتها
In relation to the kind of literal meaning that belongs to the word.

A word may be considered within different conventional domains: linguistic, legal-religious, or customary. Judging whether a use falls outside its assigned meaning requires identifying the relevant domain; a change relative to one domain need not be a change relative to every domain.

The restriction “kind of literal sense” therefore specifies the benchmark for the judgment. Confusing a word’s etymological meaning with its established technical or customary meaning can distort the classification of a particular use.