Metaphors and Action Schemes: Some Themes in Intellectual HistoryAll our abstract ideas are based on metaphors and action schemes. Jean Piaget did voluminous research on how thought develops in children through assimilation of action schemes. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson have done pioneering work on metaphors and action schemes in everyday thinking. This book builds on those foundations, looking at the role played by metaphors and action schemes in the history of ideas. The author begins his argument by taking a critical look at the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present. While he sees metaphor as simply conceiving one thing in terms of another, he points out that this is an inexhaustible process, because the context in which the process takes place is always changing. Change opens up new possibilities of similarity. Thus, the metaphor is an open door into a space of infinite possibilities. |
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... Greeks imposed a similar stricture on number . “ Greek mathematics included no general concept of number , and consequently , no notion of a continuous algebraic variable . " 23 Euclid stated that “ a number is a multitude composed of ...
... Greeks imposed a similar stricture on number . “ Greek mathematics included no general concept of number , and consequently , no notion of a continuous algebraic variable . " 23 Euclid stated that “ a number is a multitude composed of ...
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... Greek apogee , it is necessary to focus on the migrations that both destroyed and rebuilt empires . The first was the overpowering of the Greek empire by the Romans , and the second was the crum- bling of the Roman Empire under the ...
... Greek apogee , it is necessary to focus on the migrations that both destroyed and rebuilt empires . The first was the overpowering of the Greek empire by the Romans , and the second was the crum- bling of the Roman Empire under the ...
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... Greek logic , including the formalism of Euclid , might throw light on Greek musical theory and practice . Yet I have never seen the two topics yoked in any study of ancient music . 16. W. G. de Burgh , The Legacy of the Ancient World ...
... Greek logic , including the formalism of Euclid , might throw light on Greek musical theory and practice . Yet I have never seen the two topics yoked in any study of ancient music . 16. W. G. de Burgh , The Legacy of the Ancient World ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Nature of Metaphor | 21 |
Metaphor and Intellectual History | 43 |
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