Quotes by George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

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The properties of mind are not purely mental: They are shaped in crucial ways by the body and brain and how the body can — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and inseparable dimensions of — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by t — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
When we understand all that constitutes the cognitive unconscious, our understanding of the nature of consciousness is v — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stable scientific findin — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind. — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability to learn what our unc — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concepts, including time, c — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences can be drawn within t — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part of our b — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be im — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the — George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought