Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 5: The Tact. Quote 15

Where is a man when he is “on top of the world” or when he has “suffered a moral fall”? How do we “shut our eyes to the truth”? Answers to questions of this sort would reveal effective properties of the environment which are important for the study, not only of verbal behavior, but of human behavior in general. Metaphor, thus defined, is close to the Freudian “symbol.” (p. 97)

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