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Metaphor and That Certain ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’

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Thanks to John Hawthorne, Peter Koellner, John MacFarlane, Daniel Nolan, Chris Pincock, Francois Recanati, John Searle, and Dmitri Tymoczko; thanks also to the Harvard M&E workshop, the Corridor Group, and participants at colloquia at the University of Michigan and at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Special thanks for Jim Pryor for the title.

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Camp, E. Metaphor and That Certain ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’. Philos Stud 129, 1–25 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-005-3019-5

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