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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... nature and its cultural pervasiveness . Certainly it was the inspiration behind bio- logical taxonomy , from Aristotle through Adanson , Linnaeus , Lamarck , and Cuvier . Darwin , too , assumed the Chain of Being but , departing from ...
... nature and its cultural pervasiveness . Certainly it was the inspiration behind bio- logical taxonomy , from Aristotle through Adanson , Linnaeus , Lamarck , and Cuvier . Darwin , too , assumed the Chain of Being but , departing from ...
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... nature , as in other branches of study , our first task will be to try to determine what relates to its principles . The natural way of doing this is to start from the things which are more knowable and obvious to us and proceed towards ...
... nature , as in other branches of study , our first task will be to try to determine what relates to its principles . The natural way of doing this is to start from the things which are more knowable and obvious to us and proceed towards ...
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... nature was explained as the consequence of the Fall . Not an age of pets , though pets were never unknown , the Middle Ages spawned the position that all creatures and all of nature had been created subordinate to man to serve his needs ...
... nature was explained as the consequence of the Fall . Not an age of pets , though pets were never unknown , the Middle Ages spawned the position that all creatures and all of nature had been created subordinate to man to serve his needs ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Nature of Metaphor | 21 |
Metaphor and Intellectual History | 43 |
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Metaphors and Action Schemes: Some Themes in Intellectual History Robert L. Schwarz Limited preview - 1997 |
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