support his claim, Happel critically evaluates four competing
theories about the nature of metaphor.
In the process he argues that in both science and religion metaphors
communicate more than feelings: they
indicate a state of affairs. Because
disposed to critical realism , opponents are wary of the
incipient reductionism of the block view.
They resist the Boethian implications of relativity, and argue instead
that divine omnipresence must be redefined in terms of a