In a fertile section of Sprachtheorie, Bühler constructed a heuristic model for understanding metaphor, specifying its connection with perceptual issues and with the continuing problem of abstraction. Bühler had noted that the formation of composites (Komposita) such as Hölzlekönig and Hölzlekönigin to denote two large trees in the Black Forest illustrates in their particularity the general procedure by which linguistic metaphors are formed (ST 342). Bühler’s point is that “every linguistic composite is metaphorical in some degree, and the metaphorical is no special linguistic manifestation” (ST 343), a statement echoing that of Quintilian’s that “paene omne dictum metaphora est.”