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We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do. We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

-George Lakoff

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George Lakoff Quotes

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.

-George Lakoff

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The mind is inherently embodied.Thought is mostly unconscious.Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

-George Lakoff

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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 ov . . . Read more

-George Lakoff

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

-George Lakoff

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If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do is point out where their interests l . . . Read more

-George Lakoff

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

-George Lakoff

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In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concepts, including time, causation, morality, and the mind, are all conceptualized by multiple metaphors, sometimes as many as two dozen. What each philosophical theory typically does is to c . . . Read more

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one can be both free and economically secure while leading a totally meaningless and empty existence.

-George Lakoff

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