Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Living Metaphorically - Less Wrong
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Well, you didn't. You stated that the definition "A set S is infinite if and only if there exists a bijection between S and a proper subset of S." i.e. sets with transfinite cardinality accounts for the pre-formal concept of "infinity", which it doesn't. Lakoff and Núñez provide a cognitive, metaphor-based analysis which is much more comprehensive.
That would indeed be a strange claim, so it is fortunate that I did not make it.