Thus we speak about the “world” of Greece, not to designate any more what were the situations for those who lived them, but to designate the non-situational references which outlive the effacement of the first and which henceforth are offered as possible modes of being, as symbolic dimensions of our being-in-the-world. (1971c:536) 2.4 Language is metaphorical; it needs an art of deciphering. Individual words themselves can be charged with many meanings; Ricoeur refers to this quality as “polysemy.”