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Single Idea 24446

[catalogued under 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts]

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]