George Lakoff
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in Bayonne, New Jersey, The United States
May 24, 1941
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Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
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2004
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Metaphors We Live By
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1980
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Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
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1996
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Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
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1998
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The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
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2008
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
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1987
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Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
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2000
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The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic
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2012
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Whose Freedom?
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2006
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Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision
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“The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”
― Philosophy In The Flesh
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”
― Philosophy In The Flesh
“Another example of how a metaphor can create new meaning for us came about by accident. An Iranian student, shortly after his arrival in Berkeley, took a seminar on metaphor from one of us. Among the wondrous things that he found in Berkeley was an expression that he heard over and over and understood as a beautifully sane metaphor. The expression was “the solution of my problems”—which he took to be a large volume of liquid, bubbling and smoking, containing all of your problems, either dissolved or in the form of precipitates, with catalysts constantly dissolving some problems (for the time being) and precipitating out others. He was terribly disillusioned to find that the residents of Berkeley had no such chemical metaphor in mind. And well he might be, for the chemical metaphor is both beautiful and insightful. It gives us a view of problems as things that never disappear utterly and that cannot be solved once and for all. All of your problems are always present, only they may be dissolved and in solution, or they may be in solid form. The best you can hope for is to find a catalyst that will make one problem dissolve without making another one precipitate out. [...] The CHEMICAL metaphor gives us a new view of human problems. It is appropriate to the experience of finding that problems which we once thought were “solved” turn up again and again. The CHEMICAL metaphor says that problems are not the kind of things that can be made to disappear forever. To treat them as things that can be “solved” once and for all is pointless. [...] To live by the
CHEMICAL metaphor would mean that your problems have a different kind of reality for you.”
― Metaphors We Live By
CHEMICAL metaphor would mean that your problems have a different kind of reality for you.”
― Metaphors We Live By
“The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports life.”
― The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
― The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
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