Lakoff

Proper noun

Meaning

Lakoff (plural Lakoffs)

A surname.

Examples

Among his activities with the Institute, which concentrates in part on helping liberal candidates and politicians with re-framing political metaphors, Lakoff has given numerous public lectures and written accounts of his message from Moral Politics. Source: Internet

But Lakoff takes this further to explain why hypotheses built with complex metaphors cannot be directly falsified. Source: Internet

Early in 2001 Lakoff told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): "Mathematics may or may not be out there in the world, but there's no way that we scientifically could possibly tell." Source: Internet

Chomsky goes further and claims that Lakoff has "virtually no comprehension of the work he is discussing" (the work in question being Chomsky's). Source: Internet

Critical response Many working mathematicians resist the approach and conclusions of Lakoff and Núñez. Source: Internet

For Lakoff, the development of thought has been the process of developing better metaphors. Source: Internet

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