Nisan comments on Concepts Don't Work That Way - Less Wrong

57 Post author: lukeprog 28 September 2011 02:01AM

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Comment author: teageegeepea 29 September 2011 12:12:46AM 2 points [-]

There was a cognitive scientist at Mixing Memory who had a skeptical take of some of Lakoff's views on metaphors and was doing a chapter-by-chapter analysis of one of his books, but then he disappeared off the face of the internet. Still have no idea what happened to him, shame if he died without presumably signing up for cryonics.

Comment author: Nisan 29 September 2011 01:38:41AM 1 point [-]

At least some of that skepticism is well-deserved. Lakoff and his coauthor Johnson deny the existence of facts.