The author compares the conceptions of metaphor of Max Black and Jerzy Kmita. M. Black has created the interactive conception of metaphor, while J. Kmita uses the notion of counterfactual conditional for the explication of metaphor. The comparison reveals the differences in the presentation of the process of creating meanings, in which the metaphor is rooted.
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