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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... DISCURSIVE Certainly painting and sculpture , literature and drama , opera and ballet , all make wide use of symbolism , and much of that symbolism is metaphoric . Here a distinction must be made between discursive and rhetorical ...
... DISCURSIVE Certainly painting and sculpture , literature and drama , opera and ballet , all make wide use of symbolism , and much of that symbolism is metaphoric . Here a distinction must be made between discursive and rhetorical ...
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... Discursive thought takes place in a kind of symbolic or fictive topological space . Verbs of motion are crucial to discourse . They often supply the scheme of action for an argument . Coupled with prepositions , which designate ...
... Discursive thought takes place in a kind of symbolic or fictive topological space . Verbs of motion are crucial to discourse . They often supply the scheme of action for an argument . Coupled with prepositions , which designate ...
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... DISCURSIVE THOUGHT : SUMMARY In summary , I may make the following tentative generalizations about the role of spatial schematizing in discursive thought : Prioritizing is a common and distinct way in which the relative importance of ...
... DISCURSIVE THOUGHT : SUMMARY In summary , I may make the following tentative generalizations about the role of spatial schematizing in discursive thought : Prioritizing is a common and distinct way in which the relative importance of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Nature of Metaphor | 21 |
Metaphor and Intellectual History | 43 |
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