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things. But we are given no evidence for that claim. Searle conjectures that, on the grounds of heaven knows what psychological factors, "people [just do] find the notion of coldness associated in their minds with lack of emo- tion" (p. 108). This last objection suggests a simple but radical modification of the Naive Theory, which preserves the central claim that metaphors are compressed similes but avoids most of our six objections. It is articulated and defended at length by Fogelin (1988): that metaphors abbreviate, not similes taken liter- ally, but similes themselves taken figuratively. The Figurative Simile Theory Similes are often, perhaps usually, figures of speech. Sally is only figuratively like a block of ice, for she is only figuratively hard and cold. Simon is only figuratively like a rock, and Juliet is only figuratively like the sun. One way to see this (not Fogelin's own way) is to note that literal similarity is symmetric: