Full Idea
Human purposes typically require us to impose artificial boundaries that make physical phenomena discrete just as we are: entities bounded by a surface.
Gist of Idea
Human purposes imposes boundaries around our experiences
Source
G Lakoff / M Johnson (Metaphors We Live By [1980], 06)
A Reaction
Nice. An obvious example is the concept of an 'event'. Logicians then have to face the problem of vague boundaries.
Book Reference
Lakoff,G/Johnson,M: 'Metaphors We Live By' [Chicago 2003], p.25
Related Idea
Idea 8982 Vague concepts are concepts without boundaries [Sainsbury]