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Women, fire, and dangerous things by George Lakoff · Booklabria

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Women, fire, and dangerous things

Short StoriesThought and thinking

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First published: 1987
Language: English
Editions: 4

Synopsis

Focusing on studies of how humans categorize objects and ideas, this book examines the new understanding of human thought which proposes that human reason is imaginative, metaphorical, and intrinsically linked with the human body.

Subjects: Short Stories
Thought and thinking
Cognition
Thinking
Pensée
Psycholinguistics

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