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Part I OF 4: TOWARDS A NEW WORLD CULTURE
with H.H. the Dalai Lama and others

In the fall of 1999, forty innovative thinkers from around the world gathered together with H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet at his home in Dharamsala, northern India, for a special dialogue about the future of humanity and the planet

Program 2837 Broadcast during the week of 11/20/2000 to 11/26/2000

Reciprocality 0: The Programmers’ Stone

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Medieval Theories of Analogy

Medieval theories of analogy were a response to problems in three areas: logic, theology, and metaphysics. Logicians were concerned with the use of words having more than one sense, whether completely different, or related in some way. Theologians were concerned with language about God.

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Welcome to Organik – your e-community system for questions and answers !
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It did not do a great job on my question, but it could do as this grows!

DiscusWare, LLC — Specializing in WWW discussion board software

DiscusWare, LLC specializes in the development and implementation of WWW discussion board software. A discussion forum adds interactivity to your site, whether you use it to support your products, build on-line communities, teach classes, or give your visitors a place to express their opinions

With all my rummaging around I had not come across this software! Looks OK.

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor George Lakoff (c) Copyright George Lakoff, 1992

To Appear in Ortony, Andrew (ed.) Metaphor and Thought (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press.

Do not go gentle into that good night. -Dylan Thomas

Death is the mother of beauty . . . -Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning

Introduction
These famous lines by Thomas and Stevens are examples of what classical theorists, at least since Aristotle, have referred to as metaphor: instances of novel poetic language in which words like mother, go, and night are not used in their normal everyday senses. In classical theories of language, metaphor was seen as a matter of language not thought. Metaphorical expressions were assumed to be mutually exclusive with the realm of ordinary everyday language: everyday language had no metaphor, and metaphor used mechanisms outside the realm of everyday conventional language. The classical theory was taken so much for granted over the centuries that many people didn’t realize that it was just a theory. The theory was not merely taken to be true, but came to be taken as definitional. The word metaphor was defined as a novel or poetic linguistic expression where one or more words for a concept are used outside of its normal conventional meaning to express a similar concept. But such issues are not matters for definitions; they are empirical questions. As a cognitive scientist and a linguist,

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