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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... abstract notions were compounded from concrete roots . Onto these , prepositional prefixes or suffixes were grafted . By prepositional I mean language elements that express spatial , tempo- ral , instrumental , causal , and other ...
... abstract notions were compounded from concrete roots . Onto these , prepositional prefixes or suffixes were grafted . By prepositional I mean language elements that express spatial , tempo- ral , instrumental , causal , and other ...
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... abstract idea by the " forming of homologies between imag- ery and abstract concepts . ” 994 993 McNeil finds that the verbalization - cum - gesture process begins from what he calls a growth point , “ the earliest form of the utterance ...
... abstract idea by the " forming of homologies between imag- ery and abstract concepts . ” 994 993 McNeil finds that the verbalization - cum - gesture process begins from what he calls a growth point , “ the earliest form of the utterance ...
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... abstract manipulation , objects of discursive thought , whereupon they become instruments through which reality is subsequently construed . The circle of the dialectic is completed and begins its spiral development . And herein lies the ...
... abstract manipulation , objects of discursive thought , whereupon they become instruments through which reality is subsequently construed . The circle of the dialectic is completed and begins its spiral development . And herein lies the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Nature of Metaphor | 21 |
Metaphor and Intellectual History | 43 |
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