ABSTRACT
Metaphor is the borrowing of a meaning proper to one thing or kind and the transfer of that meaning to another. The metaphor of "domination" corresponds roughly to the analytic metaphors of "reduction" and to the common philosophical metaphors of "priority". Derrida is an anti-metaphysical analyzes as a work on metaphor whose entire surface is worked by a metaphorics. Derrida, given that he accepts that Davidsonian interpretation permits an understanding of metaphor that accounts for ordinary speakers' intuitions. Davidson's approach to philosophical issues is different. The uselessness of meanings in semantics leads him to do semantics differently, and understand new utterances without language-transcendent meanings. Although Davidson's use of rhetorical categories is focused on differences of force with which sentences with truth-conditions are presented, Davidson should also be open to the idea of non-logical, "rhetorical" connections among predicates. Derrida assumes that "truth" would be the correspondence of a meaning expressed by a sign to reality.
