primitive image-schemas 2

[Sherman Wilcox]

On 6/9/04 9:18 AM, "Salinas17 at aol.com" <Salinas17 at aol.com> wrote:

> If image-schemas are at all helpful in getting us to and opening the
> refrigerator door (or helping us tell someone how to do that), then we can
> expect a fundamental conformity to physical laws in the way these "cognitive"
> organs have evolved and therefore operate.  Likewise, the pain nerves in my
> toe tell me that my toe is part of "me", despite any subjective schema that
> attempts to leave it out of what is "me".  One might call it a biological
> dictate.

Peter Gärdenfors has an illuminating discussion of a related matter (the
origin of quality dimensions in conceptual spaces) on pages 26-30 of his
book "Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought" (2000, MIT Press).

-- 
Sherman Wilcox
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Linguistics
University of New Mexico