Science and industrialization share a deep historical and intellectual connection. In many ways, they are a pair of “ways of seeing” that emerged and coevolved between the 17th and 19th century. The laws of thermodynamics and steam power co-developed, the discovery, explanation, and control of electromagnetism was the prime driver of how factories came to… Continue reading A Factory or a Forest?
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Metaphors We Live (and Die) Through
In their influential book Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson make the point that metaphors are pervasive in human cognition. They in fact structure “thought and action.” A metaphor typically defined as “understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another” are more than “devices of poetic imagination...rhetorical flourish” or… Continue reading Metaphors We Live (and Die) Through
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