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Metaphors We Live By

Overview

Metaphors We Live By is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980. The book suggests metaphor is a tool that enables people to use what they know about their direct physical and social experiences to understand more abstract things like work, time, mental activity and feelings.

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Philosophers who discussed Metaphors We Live By

• Mark Johnson (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Analogy
• University of Chicago Press
• Metaphor
• Psychology
• Embodied cognition
• George Lakoff
• Cognitive science
• Cognitive linguistics
• Mark Johnson (philosopher)

Place in the tradition

Part of Relativism.

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