Indications of Rational Metaphor and the Metaphor-by-Implication Debate
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- Why is a diverting indication necessary in rational metaphor?
- How does an indication differ from the figurative relation?
- In “Your affection brought you to me,” what is affection?
- Which correctly distinguishes logical impossibility from ordinary unusualness?
- What is the grammatical subject in “فما ربحت تجارتهم”?
- What marks a verbal indication?
- Which analysis of “The ruler built the city” is most careful?
- How is a subtle indication usually recognized?
- What technical question arises from “Seeing you delighted me”?
- What is central to metaphor by implication?
- Where does the principal disagreement between the two accounts lie?
- What relation may link spring to causing growth?
- What is debated about “راضية” in “في عيشة راضية”?
- What does the command to Hāmān NOT necessarily imply?
- What does a resemblance in one respect NOT entail?
- Which is an appropriate sequence for analyzing figurative predication?
- How should an indication relate to an attribute of the implied comparand?
- What best explains the predication in “Their trade did not profit”?
- What does the manifest/subtle distinction chiefly measure?
- What goes wrong if customary usage is ignored?
- What meaning does “فهو في عيشة راضية” convey?
- What principle governs proposing an omitted genitive?
- Why distinguish a verbal indication from a grammatical subject?
- What is achieved by likening the figurative agent to a real one in al-Sakkākī’s account?
- Which case most directly illustrates grammatical versus proper agency?
- Before checking the indication in “Spring caused the grass to grow,” what must be identified?
- Which example relies notably on the distinction between bodily action and an abstract cause?
- Which three questions help assess scholarly interpretations?
- What rhetorical point is made by connecting increased looking with increased beauty?
- The diverting indication and the figurative relation are always two labels for exactly the same thing.