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The Myth of Metaphor. By Colin Murray Turbayne. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1962. Pp. x, 224. $6.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1963

John W. Davis
John W. Davis
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University of Western Ontario
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , September 1963 , pp. 236 - 238
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1963

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1 Turbayne as well as philosophers of art and others have been much influenced by Max Black's paper, “Metaphor.” This has recently been reprinted in Joseph Margolis (ed.), Philosophy Looks at the Arts, New York: Scribner's, 1962, pp. 218–234. The editor has a useful bibliography on p. 235. Most of this recent work, Turbayne included, would gain precision by a careful study of the Thomistic doctrine of analogy.

2 Turbayne's Berkeley is finally the victim of his own metaphor. His criticism of Berkeley is summarized on p. 7.

3 J . L. Austin, “Truth” in Philosophical Papers (Oxford University Press), p. 94. The point is developed by J. P. de C. Day, “George Berkeley, 1685–1753, Review of Metaphysics, VI (1952–53), 83–113, 265–286, 447–469, 583–596, esp. 99ff. and 460ff.