I. THE CASE Philoso­phers would do well to employ with greater fre­quency the metaphor. Did I say hier­ar­chy? What I really meant, was lad­der. And yes—in this par­tic­u­lar and seem­ingly inverted order. Fur­ther­more, the synec­doche may be use­ful in por­tray­als of con­cepts typ­i­cally left untouched, i.e. treated as “highly con­tro­ver­sial.” This inge­niously mul­ti­far­i­ous lit­er­ary device, serves […]