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From: jcnerne@PacBell.COM (Jim C. Nerney)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: George Lakoff on "Metaphor and War"
Keywords: metaphor, cognitive psychology
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Date: 3 Jan 91 18:21:24 GMT
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Lakoff claims that a particular form of abstraction, metaphor,
muddles discussions about the Kuwait conflict.  I suggest that
another form of abstraction, more damaging than metaphor,
befuddles Lakoff's discussion.  Idealization, abstraction
built on abstraction, with a flavor of emotional commitment,
is very evident in Lakoff's paper.