[lit-ideas] Re: L e Pesa nteu...
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:26:54 EDT
In a message dated 8/12/2004 2:29:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, goya@xxxxxxx
writes:
by what rights does *anybody* prescribe to us what reality is?
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Prescribed attitudes about reality are often hidden in our language choices,
even when we are advancing a nondirective position.
For example, as Lakoff points out, we assert that TIME IS SOMETHING MOVING
TOWARD US when we make statements like:
Five O'clock is approaching.
Thursday passed without a bombing.
Or we imply that FORM IS MOTION when we use expression like:
The Tower in Pisa leans.
The road bends.
Our conceptual metaphors lead us to prescribe notions of reality, by right of
being speakers of a language. Granted, such a prescription is not as specific
as saying Schroedinger's Cat is or isn't dead--but it is more pervasive.
Regards to all,
Eric
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