standing in the way of true understanding, to [George] Lakoff and [Mark] Johnson these metaphors are markers of the roots of thought itself. Lakoff and Johnson's larger argument is that abstract thought would be meaningless without bodily experience. And primary metaphors, in their ubiquity (in English and other languages) and their physicality, are some of their most powerful evidence for this.from The Boston Globe: Thinking literally
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