...order and clearness; all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault".10 Locke reinforces the point through his famous contrast between the faculties of 'wit' and...

...and thereby mislead the judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheats: and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues...where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be though a great fault, either of the language or person that makes use of them" (Locke 1690, Bk. III....

...passions, and thereby mislead the judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat: and therefore however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues...of the language or person that makes use of them. . . . Tis evident how much men love to deceive, and be deceived, since rhetoric, that powerful instrument...

...popular addresses"; but, Locke continues, it is certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform and instruct, wholly to be avoided; and where truth and...either of the language or person that makes use of them (Locke, 1690, vol. II, p. 146). However, if figurative use of language is indeed, at least where "dry...

...and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats, and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues...of the language or person that makes use of them, (quoted in Cohen, 1979, p. 2) Since metaphors are untrue as literal statements, we can see why metaphor...

...passions, and thereby mislead the judgement; and so indeed are perfect cheats; and therefore . . . they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend...of the language or person that makes use of them. 18. The problem is, at least within the modernist context, that this conception of planning as a moral...

...passions, and thereby mislead the judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat: and therefore however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues...pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided. (m,x,34) It is ironic that the rhetorical power of this harangue by Locke against figurative speech...

...else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move passions, and thereby mislead the judgement [...] they [...] cannot but be thought a great fault either of the language or person that makes use of them1. Davidson, on the contrary, professes that "metaphor is a legitimate device not only in literature,...

...and thereby mislead the judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheats: and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues...of the language or person that makes use of them. (Book IIl, Chapter X, 34) According to empiricist thinking, figurative language, and for that matter,...

...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement; and so indeed are perfect cheats: [...] they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend...of the language or person that makes use of them. (Locke, 1961: 105) This distrust of so-called figurative elements was well preserved and cultivated...