# Negotiating vocabulary and the logic of analogy

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-03-23-negotiating-vocabulary-and-the-logic-of-analogy

The piece argues that word meanings and causal analogies are negotiated in discourse rather than supplied as fixed consequences of language.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 March 2007

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 23 March 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: semantics, analogy, political-discourse, language.

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