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Publication details [#25081]
Johnson, Mark. 1987. The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. University of Chicago Press. xxxviii + 233 pp. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
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Annotation
This book argues that image-schemata, modeled upon acquired bodily experiences, constitute meaning-structures themselves, and allow a more direct comprehension of meaning than the propositional logic that especially philosophers use at this point.