A point can be made of the Griceian sort:
"That cigarette ain't healthy"
"Look, darling; it's animals which are healthy or fail to be so. So, I would grant you that a cigarette ain't healthy, but I guess I knew that."
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This does not work.
Better scenario:
"That urine is healthy".
"It's not. Strictly, it is FALSE to say that that urine is healthy" (Sorry, the example belongs to St. (so-called) Thomas Aquinas, an Italian -- and a saint, so-called).
And so on.
In this way, analogy relates with metaphor and disimplicature. Or not.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
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