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Why cognitive linguistics requires embodied realism - Coggle Diagram
Why cognitive linguistics requires embodied realism
Experientialism vs. Empiricism
Rejects empiricism and rationalism dichotomy
Advocates for experientialism (embodied realism)
Built-in and learned cognitive mechanisms coexist
Evidence supports inborn and learned aspects of conceptual systems
Conceptual Metaphor Importance
Requires rethinking foundational assumptions
Supported by linguistic, psychological, neuroscientific, and anthropological evidence
Influences meaning, conceptualization, reason, knowledge, truth, and language
Embodied Realism Necessity
Meaning grounded in sensorimotor experience
Extended through imaginative mechanisms
Shaping abstract conceptualization and reasoning
Inseparable from conceptual metaphor and other imaginative structures
Image Schema Clarification
Image schemas result from embodied sensorimotor and cognitive structures
Ongoing interaction between organism and environment
Meaning from recurring patterns of engagement
Rejects Pinker's idea of severing connections; image schemas remain embodied
Representation and Experientialism
Representation as a flexible pattern of organism-environment interactions
Reject classical notions of disembodied internal idea-objects
Image schemas as neural structures in the sensorimotor system
Embodied Realism
Locus of experience, meaning, and thought in ongoing organism-environment interactions
No ultimate separation of mind and body
Always "in touch" with the world through embodied acts and experiences
Grounding of meaning in empirical evidence from cognitive sciences
Critique of Rakova's Views
Failure to consider a broad range of empirical evidence supporting embodied realism
Evidence from fMRI and ERP experiments supporting embodied theory
Lack of reference to relevant brain studies and empirical research
Implicit Philosophical Assumptions
Dichotomies: rationalism vs. empiricism, relativism vs. reductionism
Correspondence theory of truth, objectivist view of reality
Literalist theory of meaning, transcendent view of reason
Representational theory of mind, concepts as conscious and disembodied
Independence of philosophy from empirical science
Role of Conceptual Metaphor in Science
Rakova denies the constitutive role of conceptual metaphor in scientific theory
Growing body of research highlighting the guiding and constitutive role of metaphors in science
Acknowledgment that metaphors can be misleading, but their critical role remains
Rakova's Misreadings
Lack of substantive critiques or new data in Rakova's paper
Misreadings due to her mastery of Western philosophical tradition
Failure to engage with actual positions in cognitive linguistics
Implicit adoption of traditional philosophical views
Relativism and Embodied Realism
Embodied realism accommodates both universal concepts and cultural variation
Rejects the dichotomy between classic relativism and anti-relativism
Grounded in empirical evidence rather than philosophical preconceptions