 Further, the account allows for the open-endedness of metaphor without succumbing to the view that metaphor is non-cognitive.In later work, Tirrell decisively undermines the view that metaphor should be understood as elliptical simile (“Reductive and Non-Reductive Simile Theories of Metaphor”(J. Phil, 1991).Her work brings inferential role semantics, as developed in the Pittsburgh School, to bear on alternative theories of metaphor, and shows the importance of interpretive practices.