façon de parler

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Fransızca - İngilizce
{n} way of talking, manner of speaking
manner of speaking
İngilizce - İngilizce
A turn of phrase or rhetorical formula, especially one that ought not to be taken literally, but rather as employed for convenience of expression only

This might all seem grist to Berkeley’s mill. Berkeley himself knew that we interpret our experience in spatio-temporal, objective terms. But he thought we had to ‘speak with the vulgar but think with the learned’: in other words, learn to regard that interpretation as a kind of façon de parler, rather than the description of a real, independent, objective world.