Tham khảo tài liệu 'objects of metaphor phần 4', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 92 Object and Word been central to contemporary philosophy for more than a hundred years. To both of these constituencies I give the same answer everything that I have said in this chapter will in the end prove necessary for the exposition and defence of my view of metaphor. The central theme of this chapter has been the sharing of functions as between words and objects. If my main interest had been solely in the use of words as names or labels the chapter would have been less convoluted and much shorter. Words are used referentially and so are objects. The way that reference works in natural language is subtle and often deceptive the use of objects as referential devices is often though not always more straightforward. But there can be no doubt that for example in explaining an unfortunate accident a fold mark on a tablecloth can refer to the rue Jacob in Paris just as do the words rue Jacob . However as luck would have it my view of metaphor requires the investigation not so much of reference but rather of predication. And here I found it impossible to avoid the longer story. Beginning with certain hints that can be gleaned from Goodman s notion of exemplification I found it necessary to lift the lid even if only slightly on the narrow world of philosophical logic. Scrupulous though it is I found that in that world predication gets a raw deal. Lip-service is paid to its importance it is held along with reference to be essential for our most basic propositional structures for thoughts themselves. Nonetheless it is not afforded parity of treatment with reference. Nor given that predication tends to be explained in a framework dominated by reference is this inequality even noticed. My particular complaint was this reference can be accomplished both by words and in the right circumstances by non-word objects whereas predication is typically thought of as inherently and solely a function of words. This seemed to me to be wrong and I set out to see whether there was .
