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METAPHOR in SCIENCE
"The question which concerns the philosopher of science is how to understand the role of metaphor in science—
what theoretical or methodological function is to be ascribed to metaphors in scientific language.
A short answer to this question, I believe, can be found, emblematically, in the title to a well-known article by Richard Boyd (1979): "Metaphor and theory change: what is 'metaphor' a metaphor for?"
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