Spirit - Metaphysical and Metaphorical Uses

Metaphysical and Metaphorical Uses

English-speakers use the word "spirit" in two related contexts, one metaphysical and the other metaphorical.

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    When philosophers use a word—”knowledge,” “being,” “object,” “I,” “proposition,” “name”—and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?—What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)