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From: gal2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Jacob Galley)
Subject: Re: Metaphor uses
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I can't answer your specific question, but you might be interested in
reading _The Body in the Mind_ by Mark Johnson, who also co-authored
_Metaphors We Live By_ with George Lakoff.  In _Body_, Johnson
describes a theory of meaning which takes seriously metaphor's role in
cognition.  This is probably completely at odds with Davidson's
theory of meaning.

Btw, if anyone has seen any good criticism of Johnson's book, I'd
appreciate the reference!

Jake.

-- 
Philosophers cannot purely and simply forget what psychology, sociology, ethno-
graphy, history and psychiatry have taught us about the conditioning of human
behavior. It would be a very romantic way of showing one's love for reason to
base its reign on the disavowal of acquired knowledge.       <-- Merleau-Ponty
