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Definition:
A metonymy (Greek for "change of name" or "misnomer") is a trope which involves
substituting some word or phrase with another, closely related word or phrase. For
example, a very common metonymy is the use of the word "Washington" when a person really
means "the government of the United States of America."
Metonymy can also be used in the visual arts by substituting some attribute in place of a whole object. For example, a common metonymy in religious art is the placement of a crown of thorns instead of the entire figure of Jesus Christ.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
