"Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of……" — George Lakoff
"Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature."
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11 Quotes by George Lakoff
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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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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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