Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel.

Whether it’s right or wrong, I accept everything that happens, and that’s how I became the person I am now.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports life.

...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences can be drawn within that philosophical theory. The (typically unconscious) conceptual metaphors that are constitutive of a philosophical theory have the causal effect of constraining how you can reason within that philosophical framework.

George Lakoff

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Written By George Lakoff

Written By George Lakoff

Written By George Lakoff

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