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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... elements ; it must be made from a fifth element . Now , the celestial bodies move in circular orbits . Circular orbits through sym- metry are perfect paths , and only perfect bodies move on perfect paths . Hence , the celestial bodies ...
... elements ; it must be made from a fifth element . Now , the celestial bodies move in circular orbits . Circular orbits through sym- metry are perfect paths , and only perfect bodies move on perfect paths . Hence , the celestial bodies ...
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... elements . One reason chemists did not earlier conclude that substances are analyzable into elements other than the classical four is that most alchemy had to do with metals . In alloys often the properties of the constituents cannot ...
... elements . One reason chemists did not earlier conclude that substances are analyzable into elements other than the classical four is that most alchemy had to do with metals . In alloys often the properties of the constituents cannot ...
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... elements . The atomic theory seemed better suited for accounting for these elements than any theory in which the four elements were deduced philosophically from first principles . In es- sence , the chemists of the Renaissance ...
... elements . The atomic theory seemed better suited for accounting for these elements than any theory in which the four elements were deduced philosophically from first principles . In es- sence , the chemists of the Renaissance ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Nature of Metaphor | 21 |
Metaphor and Intellectual History | 43 |
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