"For real human beings, the only realism is……" — George Lakoff
"For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism."
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11 Quotes by George Lakoff
George Lakoff has 11 quotes on this site.
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Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption…
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You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
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Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains…
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Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For…
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Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
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For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature.…
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We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the…
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If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.
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Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should…
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The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has…
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
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