Wednesday, January 1, 2014

At/in/between boundaries

From an older L&J article (1992), reminiscent of the Rift at/in/between boundaries:

"Basic level concepts [...] cannot be characterized either purely objectively or subjectively, but can only be characterized interactively: That is, they are neither objective features of the world nor purely subjective constructions of our minds" (3).

"Since image schema are not in the objective world, but arise from properties of our brains, they do not have a purely objective character. But since they are determined in part by our biology, and by the world as we experience it, they are not purely subjective either" (4).

"These aspects of [prototype] category structure are obviously not objective features of the external world. Nor are the purely subjective projections, since they arise from the way we function with objects in the world" (4-5).

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