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George Lakoff

“...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false.”

George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
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Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff
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