Semantic Extension, Idioms and Proverbs, Cultural Semantics, Cognitive Semantics Share and Cite: Di, J.Y. (2026) A Semantic Analysis of “Peach” in Chinese and Japanese. Open Access Library Journal, 13 ...

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Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...

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