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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field of mathematics , whenever a new operation , class , or entity is defined , we are supplied with an intellectual structure having internal relations that suggest new ways in which to structure our experience .
field of mathematics , whenever a new operation , class , or entity is defined , we are supplied with an intellectual structure having internal relations that suggest new ways in which to structure our experience .
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Relations belong to experience only in so far as they are concurrent with the things on which they depend . To speak of the relation between A and B when A and B are absent ( negation ) is , as Vaihinger says , absurd .
Relations belong to experience only in so far as they are concurrent with the things on which they depend . To speak of the relation between A and B when A and B are absent ( negation ) is , as Vaihinger says , absurd .
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I use the term experience rather than world because experience is what we know most immediately , whereas the world is something we construe from experience . Furthermore , I will bypass the argument that experience itself is never ...
I use the term experience rather than world because experience is what we know most immediately , whereas the world is something we construe from experience . Furthermore , I will bypass the argument that experience itself is never ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Nature of Metaphor | 21 |
Metaphor and Intellectual History | 43 |
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| Title | Metaphors and Action Schemes: Some Themes in Intellectual History |
| Author | Robert L. Schwarz |
| Publisher | Bucknell University Press, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 14 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 0838753558, 9780838753552 |
| Length | 281 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Civilization |
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