playing with strikethroughs

Making headway on the paper

We unconsciously use metaphors everyday, they are embedded in the etymologies of our words, they constitute our clichés, and they give us a means of expressing some of the ineffable qualities of being.  The truth in metaphor, or possibly the truth in metaphor concerns us here because as Lakoff and Johnson argue “We have found that metaphor is pervasive, not merely in our language but in our conceptual system.  It seems inconceivable to us that any phenomenon so fundamental to our conceptual system could not be central to an account of truth and meaning”  (Lakoff, Johnson 78%).  


It is better to think of the truth in metaphor as the truth in metaphor so we can re-cognize our participation and responsibility in accepting and making it function as true as well as to highlight that truth is actually situated within the metaphor as a discursive function that has the power to redescribe and reorder the world.