Il ruolo cognitivo della metafora in Arthur C. Danto

My intention in this paper is to show that the cognitive role of metaphor in Danto’s approach is more modest than the one theorized by some contemporary philosophers. I argue that: 1) considering his enthymematic conception of metaphor, Danto endorses the idea that a metaphor brings to light an implicit feature of the topic and does not create a concept ex-novo, 2) he needs to distinguish between literal meaning and metaphorical meaning, because of his artistic theory of indiscernible objects, 3) Danto believes, as Josef Stern does, that a metaphor hides a demonstrative that entails a context-dependence.