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Visione e invenzione. La conoscenza per via di metafora nel Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] Vision and invention. Knowledge by way of metaphor in the Aristotelian telescope of Emanuele Tesauro

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Abstract

From the theory of metaphor exhibited in the "Cannocchiale aristotelico", the inquiry focuses on the specificity of the knowledge offered by the queen of figures of speech as it was perceived in the Seventeenth century. What emerges is the distance from the Aristotelian perspective, as well as about the relationship knowledge / reality and the way in which the words say, light up and 'create' the real
Translated title of the contribution[Autom. eng. transl.] Vision and invention. Knowledge by way of metaphor in the Aristotelian telescope of Emanuele Tesauro
Original languageItalian
Pages (from-to)57-87
Number of pages31
JournalStudi Secenteschi
Volume47
Publication statusPublished - 2006

Keywords

  • Aristotele
  • Tesauro
  • cognitive function of metaphor
  • wonder

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