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 a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

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 a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

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 a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.