Changing Worldviews: Responding to Betty Birner and Robert Masson

Worldviews are changed by higher viewpoints that can develop by metaphoric process, the equating of two formerly disparate known concepts. The equating results in a distortion—a tectonic reformation—of the associated fields of meanings that effects a rearrangement of associated concepts leading to n...

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Published in:Zygon
Authors: Gerhart, Mary (Author) ; Russell, Allan Melvin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2004
In: Zygon
Year: 2004, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-75
Further subjects:B George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
B tectonic reformation
B higher viewpoint
B fields of meaning
B Worldview
B Analogy
B metaphors of thought and action
B linguistic metaphors
B stereoscopic view
B bidisciplinary
B metaphoric process in science and religion
B ontological flash
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Summary:Worldviews are changed by higher viewpoints that can develop by metaphoric process, the equating of two formerly disparate known concepts. The equating results in a distortion—a tectonic reformation—of the associated fields of meanings that effects a rearrangement of associated concepts leading to new cognitive relations. We comment on reviews of our books Metaphoric Process (1984) and New Maps for Old (2001) by Robert Masson and Betty Birner. Metaphoric process may further understanding of the formation of diverse worldviews and their reconciliation.
ISSN:1467-9744
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00559.x