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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... space ... shows the centrality of self - reference : we sense space by its relation to something else , and essentially to our bodies . Indeed , the disappearance of the place the part of space - the leg occupies for the brain - damaged ...
... space ... shows the centrality of self - reference : we sense space by its relation to something else , and essentially to our bodies . Indeed , the disappearance of the place the part of space - the leg occupies for the brain - damaged ...
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... space are first , or primary , positions that prioritize considerations of matters associated with those positions . In other words , the vec- tor space serves as an orientative model for further thought . The thought process would ...
... space are first , or primary , positions that prioritize considerations of matters associated with those positions . In other words , the vec- tor space serves as an orientative model for further thought . The thought process would ...
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... spaces are extensions or generalizations of those used to describe spatial rela- tions . With that caveat , we cite a formal definition of a topological space : A topo- logical space is a set containing minimally itself and the null set ...
... spaces are extensions or generalizations of those used to describe spatial rela- tions . With that caveat , we cite a formal definition of a topological space : A topo- logical space is a set containing minimally itself and the null set ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Nature of Metaphor | 21 |
Metaphor and Intellectual History | 43 |
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