... from a cognitive perspective: mental spaces, connectors between referents, the distinction between roles and individuals and the ability to extend spaces in a discourse. To extend that two of us build up similar space configurations from the same semantic and pragmatic data, we may communicate. What is needed is a theory based on the capacities of the human mind rather than the capacities of the mathematical systems used by logicians. One of the problems for theories based on formal logic is that they cannot deal with metaphor at all, because metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon and these theories are only suited to talking about objective reality rather than imaginative constructions. Logic-based theories simply treat all metaphors as necessarily false statements from which nothing can follow. Reality There is a reality in which physical objects exist, and the normal situation is for linguistic descriptions to refer to these physical objects, but this ...

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