 Later in his career, Ricoeur’s considerations of the hermeneutical long route to self-understanding shift attention from a semantics of symbols to considerations of metaphor and especially narrative. Ricoeur’s considerations of metaphor build from the claim that metaphor should be grasped not first as the substitution of one conventional name for a different one, but, instead, as a “peculiar predication,” one “consisting in the attribution to logical subjects of predicates that are incompossible with them” (Ricoeur, “On Interpretation,” 8). Crucial for Ricoeur is that metaphorical predication thus not only concerns what Frege called ‘sense’ but also ‘reference.’ Metaphors are linguistic innovations that allow us to refer to aspects of reality for which words are otherwise unavailable (Ricoeur, “On Interpretation,” 10).