The Epistemology of Metaphor

Man, Paul de

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“…This context is a long tradition of thinking with and about metaphors in philosophy. To describe it, I rely on Jacques Derrida's White Mythology (1974) and Paul de Man's (1978) The Epistemology of Metaphor.…”

Section: Where Mathematical Metaphors Come Frommentioning

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A Historically and Philosophically Informed Approach to Mathematical Metaphors

Wagner¹

2013

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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This paper discusses the concept of mathematical metaphor as a tool for analyzing the formation of mathematical knowledge. It reflects on the work of Lakoff and Núñez as a reference point against which to rearticulate a richer notion of mathematical metaphor that can account for actual mathematical evolution. To reach its goal this paper analyzes historical case studies, draws on cognitive research, and applies lessons from the history of metaphors in philosophy as analyzed by Derrida and de Man.

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Section: Where Mathematical Metaphors Come Frommentioning

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A Historically and Philosophically Informed Approach to Mathematical Metaphors

Wagner¹

2013

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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“…Like deconstructivist literary criticism (de Man 1979(de Man [1973(de Man ], 1978Derrida 1982), cognitive metaphor theorists assert that the supposedly literal is metaphoric, or that there is (almost) no such thing as a literal sentence.…”

Section: Blending Theory -What Is It?mentioning

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Naturalizing the unnatural: A view from blending theory

Fludernik

2010

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In Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (1996), I presented the process of naturalization as a strategy of converting not-naturally-occurring storytelling scenarios into familiarized models of narration. In order to map this process, this paper resorts to the most recent version of blending theory (conceptual integration networks) as proposed by Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier. The analysis will be prefaced by a few framing remarks on the cognitive approach in the study of narrative and will conclude with an outlook on further possible applications of blending theory. 1

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“…On de Man's account, it is not about ontology, about things as they are-not even close-but rather about authority, things as they are decreed to be. Nothing, in principle, separates the naming of one thing from another (de Man, 1978). For de Man, this is to see ordinary language as a zone of "wild figurations" (p. 19).…”

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An Emphatic Geography: Notes on the Ethical Itinerary of Landscape

Wyck¹

2008

Canadian Journal of Communication

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The year 2007 marked the beginning of the fourth International Polar Year, another frenzy of big science and circumpolar interest in questions of sovereignty, climate change, resources, and so on. At the same time, in the domain of the humanities, there are a host of re-elaborations of the very discourses of nordicity that seek to bring to light a North that is no longer merely an empty space and passage to elsewhere; rather, it is a North that has become a site and a figure, and a caution and a limit-a problem, in other words. My text proceeds from the unstable ground of this refigured nordicity. In the summer of 2005, I went North to the Mackenzie River basin with the typewritten field journals of Harold Innis. The young Innis had made the same trip in the summer of 1924, and my initial interest was an attempt to retrace his steps and to reflect on the place of North (as margin) in the development of his ideas at that time. Where his abiding concern had been production, innovation, and social relations, my own interest concerned method, writing, and landscape. Nonetheless, as I travelled up the length of the "River of Disappointment," as Mackenzie called it, a methodological dialogue emerged.Keywords: Harold Adams Innis: Northern Canada; Mackenzie River; Great Bear Lake; Landscape; Uranium Résumé : L'année 2007 a marqué le début de la quatrième Année polaire internationale, événement marquant pour l'élite des sciences, suscitant un intérêt pour la souveraineté circumpolaire, le changement climatique, les ressources, et ainsi de suite. En même temps, dans les lettres, il s'élabore une multitude de discours sur la nordicité où l'on cherche à mettre à jour un Nord qui ne serait qu'espace vide ou lieu de passage; aujourd'hui, le Nord passe au premier plan, devenant avertissement et limite-à certains égards, un problème. Mon texte jette ses fondements sur le sol instable de cette nordicité reconfigurée.

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The Epistemology of Metaphor

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A Historically and Philosophically Informed Approach to Mathematical Metaphors

A Historically and Philosophically Informed Approach to Mathematical Metaphors

Naturalizing the unnatural: A view from blending theory

An Emphatic Geography: Notes on the Ethical Itinerary of Landscape

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