From sensory to propositional modality
The mental world of epistemic modality is not entirely removed from the material world of objects and substances that humans perceive and interact with. Modal stances are symbolically related to physical stances and metaphorically described in terms of visual and manual-haptic experience. Cognizers...
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2006-06-01
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| description | The mental world of epistemic modality is not entirely removed from the material world of objects and substances that humans perceive and interact with. Modal stances are symbolically related to physical stances and metaphorically described in terms of visual and manual-haptic experience. Cognizers perform mental gestures and engage in “ceptual”scenes of epistemic vision, motion and manipulation. Thus, hypotheses are “formed”; while assertions, judgements and conjectures are “made” with varying degrees of “strength”. Conclusions are typically “reached” and inferences “drawn”. Interpretations are “constructs”. Logical arguments “stand”. Inconsistent statements “collapse” or “fall apart”. The common perceptual analogues of certainty are “clarity” and “solidity”. Propositions are blended mental-material objects of conception that the imaginary body of cognition accesses in blended mental-physical space, using the imaginary organs, perceptions and motions encoded in the language. |
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