Abstract
I will argue that Peirce-oriented semiotics, especially Peirce's notion on abductive form of inference, i. e. notion on the interconnection between guessing and observation in inferential process, which is inherent to use, understanding and analysis of metaphor understood in Aristotelian way as comparative inter- or trans-reference. I would like to compare some selected aspects of Peirce's semeiotic with two other different but basic viewpoints on metaphor, which are inherently semiotic, but not strictly in Peircean way: we can consider them as specific conceptions or (in the fashion of J.
Deely) as parts of development of semiotic consciousness which culminates in Peirce's late works.