Tham khảo tài liệu 'objects of metaphor phần 6', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 152 The Semantic Descent Account that the act of using the object in this referential way comes with a built-in demand for contextual Details aside the crucial moral of this referential case is that the mere use of an object as a referring device is obviously and naturally understood as dependent on context. There is nothing ad hoc about this dependency it is not that we find ourselves insisting on the need for context as a result of finding unintelligible the communicative act in which the reference takes place. It is simply that any such use is a use-in-a-context. This same moral applies to cases of qualification. Independently of metaphor and of the demand that this or that metaphor be made intelligible one recognizes the use of objects as qualifiers as a context-dependent activity. Hence while the sun is not obviously bound to any context for its interpretation when used as a qualifier the sun most certainly is. With these remarks one can better appreciate the real difference between my account s appeal to context and the appeal made by other Content Sufficient accounts. In the usual such account and Black s can serve as an example here contexts of the most diverse kinds are ransacked for associated commonplaces that then help to make die metaphor intelligible. These commonplaces if that is ever what they are are those claimed to be associated with the predicate expression in the metaphor. But as we have seen the predicate expression in a metaphor is typically not one that has any need of context for its intelligibility context is thus sort of forced on it. In contrast in my account context is tied not to an expression but to the object that then comes to serve as a qualifier. Because qualification by objects is a function that is intrinsically context-dependent there is no forcing of contextual ingredients onto an unwilling recipient. Here is another way to think about these issues. Ordinary predicate expressions like the sun do their predicative work
