PSYC2242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: George Lakoff, Benzene, Stephen Pepper
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Wednesday 12 december: study day - no class. Final exam: december 18th gasson 206 (not normal classroom!!) This is not to undermine the role of observation! Once we start making observations, it modifies our theory. We know that we don"t have pure observation. Part of it is folk theory embedded in our language/culture. Everyday words express concepts but not everything we deal with are primitive perceptual process. We start with something we know really well, like the perception of space/our bodies, and we use that and apply it elsewhere. We see these metaphors in our everyday language. There is evidence of metaphors being seen in science. The first atom theories when observations got more and more precise, it was utilized that atoms had structure, nucleus, electrons, etc. Now, that"s not the current theory in physics, which is quantum mechanics. It used the solar system as a metaphor for the way that an atom works (electrons orbit the nucleus).
