A form of metaphor in which the part (the less inclusive) stands for or replaces the whole (the more inclusive term). An extreme example, but one that might have some adherents, is “Cognitive psychology is psychology”. Some rhetoricians do not distinguish between a synecdoche and a metonymy. <\/p>\n
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