"Liberals have a set of folk theories that……" — George Lakoff
"Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts."
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George Lakoff
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11 Quotes by George Lakoff
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You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
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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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For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
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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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