Abstract
The American polymath C. S. Peirce had no theory of metaphor and he provided only a few remarks concerning the trope. Yet, some of these remarks seem to suggest that Peirce saw the metaphor as fundamental to consciousness and thought. In this article we will try to sketch a possible connection between consciousness and metaphor; a relation where the last mentioned is endowed with a special function within the first mentioned as a cognitive mechanism. We will use Peirce's concept of abduction as a bridge between metaphor and consciousness, since, according to Peirce, abduction is the only semeiotic mechanism that can convey new insights.
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