TY - BOOK AU - George Lakoff AU - George Lakoff TI - Women, fire, and dangerous things: : what categories reveal about the mind SN - 9780226468044 U1 - 401.9 LAK PY - 1987/// CY - Chicago PB - : University of Chicago Press KW - Philosophy KW - Cognition KW - Psycholinguistics N1 - Book I: The mind beyond the machine -- Importance of categorization -- From Wittgenstein to Rosch -- Prototype effects in language -- Idealized cognitive models -- Metonymic models -- Radial categories -- Features, stereotypes, and defaults -- More about cognitive models -- Defenders of the classical view -- Review -- The objectivist paradigm -- What's wrong with objectivist metaphysics -- What's wrong with ojbectivist cognition -- The formalist enterprise -- Putnam's theorem -- A new realism -- Cognitive semantics -- Whorf and relativism -- The mind-as-machine paradigm -- Mathematics as a cognitive activity -- Overview -- Book II: Case studies -- Anger -- Over -- There-constructions N2 - Focusing on studies of how humans categorize objects and ideas, this book examines the new understanding of human thought which proposes that human reason is imaginative, metaphorical, and intrinsically linked with the human body ER -