The topic of Metaphors is both one of the most prolific and most demanding topics in linguistics and cognitive sciences. Tracing their investigative ontology, Aristotle is considered to be the first to write about them, with the purpose of analysing how they are constructed. In revising the relevance of Aristotle’s insights for the sciences in question, this paper raises the following question - Is Aristotle’s analysis of the creative process that gives rise to metaphors comparable to the recent results yielded by modern research?
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