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Life
What is a metaphor?
Bob is a ray of sunshine.
Bob is a tortoise.
Bob is a ripe banana. (Bruce Frasers
study)
soaking up ideas
as you study.
put
aside as much time as you can
Your homework this weekend is to
how important
this is. Imagine that your brains are
sponges, soaking up ideas as you study.
Place a
clear image of it your mind.
do you want you life to be?
(Lakoff)
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The meaning is right
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meaning.
Your words seemhollow.
happy = up
sad = down
rational = up
emotional =
down
High- level
discussion
simultaneous mapping
movement from one another realm?
place to another
lifetime = a day
to pass away
Even science and economics are not safe from the metaphor!
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love =
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