¿Qué es cognitivo en la metáfora según Aristóteles?

In the Poetics (21 1457b6 f.), Aristotle, defines metaphor as the transfer (epiphora) of a term from a given, foreign (allotrios) domain to another one. If, as does the classical doctrine of tropes, we consider that it substitutes the 'proper' term, the metaphor has a purely ornamental value and we can do without it. Modern theories insist, on the contrary, on the cognitive value of the metaphor: Because it offers a re-description of the world, the metaphor is "alive" (Paul Ricoeur). The question is to what extent this cognitive conception of metaphor, in spite of its classical reception, is already at work in Aristotle's differentiated analysis of the phenomenon, as Ricoeur claims. The answer is 'yes but rather no'. This is because the cognition Aristotle talks about in relation to metaphor is of a special type, a "quasi-cognition". © 2020 Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. All right reserved.