@article{Sørensen_2011, title={The Concept of Metaphor according to the philosophers C. S. Peirce and U. Eco – a tentative comparison}, volume={5}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/signs/article/view/26866}, abstractNote={<p>According to both Peirce and Eco metaphor can play an important role in the generation of sense and new knowledge. When Peirce defined metaphor as a hypoicon he was a scholastic realist. Before his “epistemic break” in the nineties Eco, on the other hand, was a nominalist - even though Eco was highly inspired by Peirce’s ideas of signifying construction as an unlimited sign- exchanging process. This fundamental epistemological difference necessarily gives some evident differences in the perception of metaphor. Some of these differences will be presented in the following article.</p>}, journal={Signs - International Journal of Semiotics}, author={Sørensen, Bent}, year={2011}, month={Aug.}, pages={147–176} }