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Mind – Metaphor Hacker

Hacking Metaphors, Frames and Other Ideas

Tag: Mind

Sunsets, horizons and the language/mind/culture distinction

Post author By Dominik Lukeš
Post date August 24, 2013
1 Comment on Sunsets, horizons and the language/mind/culture distinction

For some reason, many accomplished people, when they are done accomplishing what they’ve set out to accomplish, turn their minds to questions like: What is primary, thought or language. What is primary, culture or language. What is primary, thought or culture. I’d like to offer a small metaphor hack for solving or rather dissolving these […]

Tags Culture, featured, Grammar, Heuristic, Human communication, Language, Mind, Science

Extended writing Knowledge Linguistics Metaphor Philosophy

The brain is a bad metaphor for language

Post author By Dominik Lukeš
Post date March 11, 2011
4 Comments on The brain is a bad metaphor for language

Note: This was intended to be a brief note. Instead it developed into a monster post that took me two weeks of stolen moments to write. It’s very light on non-blog references but they exist. Nevertheless, it is still easy to find a number of oversimplifications, conflations, and other imperfections below. The general thrust of […]