Expression and Gesture
Martyn Evans · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 1990
We have distinguished judgements involving metaphors — such as the judgements about the ‘crystal surface’ of Scarlatti’s piano music — from judgements which use descriptions like ‘cadence’, ‘fugal opening’ and ‘tritone’. In the latter case we know the conditions for the truth of such judgements. But in the case of metaphors we do not know them: indeed we do not know how to make sense of the idea that they might be ‘true’ or ‘false’ at all — truth and falsity do not feature in this sort of talk at all. It looks as though that feature of a judgement which makes it expressive, cannot be examined and understood as if it were a description. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.