Knowing through the body
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Philosophical Psychology
- Vol. 4 (1) , 3-18
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089108573009
Abstract
Recent empirical studies of categorization, concept development, semantic structure, and reasoning reveal the inadequacies of all theories that regard knowledge as static, propositional, and sentential. These studies show that conceptual structure and reason are grounded in patterns of bodily experience. Structures of our spatial/temporal orientations, perceptual interactions, and motor programs provide an imaginative basis for our knowledge of, and reasoning about, more abstract domains. Such a view transcends both foundationalism and extreme relativism or scepticism.Keywords
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