By Mark Turner
During this booklet, Mark Turner exhibits that the languages of literature and way of life are varied expressions of an analogous common mechanisms of the brain. Drawing at the languages and metaphors of kinship and causation, and on myriad examples in English literature from Chaucer to Wallace Stevens, he argues convincingly that every one our pondering with language is dependent upon a limited variety of deep metaphors and inference styles.
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The new links in the extended basic model are: Feeling> Belief Intellect > Belief The other links I have found are: Character > Character Character > Feeling Regimen > Character Thought > Knowledge Here are the details: Feeling> Belief Fear has been the original parent of superstition. (Gibbon) Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear (Ambrose Bierce) Intellect > Belief Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. Qoubert) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Ies, or their true mother, Age (Donne) and stench, diseases, and old filth, their mother. Oonson) In both examples, the cause and the effects (age causes sickness; filth causes disease and stench) are necessarily connected because there is some power. some efficacy in the cause to produce the effect. This is quite at variance with causation as constant conjunction. Indeed, age does not invariably produce sickness, or filth disease. Language and knowledge have genealogies under cmuation ns progenm~tion in Italian, eldest daughter of ancient Latin and iWetapbor and Kin JS Natural philosophy, that great mother of sciences.
The occupant of the universe is, by place and titm as partnt, its offspring, and, by biological resomw as parem, its biological progeny. Treated as, a subcategory of fim(fional proptrty tmnsfer, implies that the subject is both nurtured and loved by the universe. Proptrty transfer, prompted by the explanatory pointer after the statement, transfers to "you" a child's rights of existence and its privilege to be nurtured by what produced it, regardless of its own contribution to its existence. The highlight of the statement is inheritance: as a child of tlte universe, you inherit its patterns and essence and hence necessarily harmonize with it.