Our conclusion, then, is that analogies do not prove but that they may certainly suggest and explain. ('Metaphorical Language', p. 201.)
Careful and purposeful classification suggests the rise of logic, that is, of the deliberate, systematic, consistent ordering of discourse. Aristotle could not satisfied with thinking of a tragedy as a goat-song; he had to define the term, which is to say, include it within a genus and clearly differentiate it from the other species within the same genus: "Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete, serious... and of a certain magnitude... through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. ('Metaphorical Language', p. 181)
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Careful and purposeful classification suggests the rise of logic, that is, of the deliberate, systematic, consistent ordering of discourse. Aristotle could not satisfied with thinking of a tragedy as a goat-song; he had to define the term, which is to say, include it within a genus and clearly differentiate it from the other species within the same genus: "Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete, serious... and of a certain magnitude... through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. ('Metaphorical Language', p. 181)
（NY: Longmans, Green & Co., 1956）