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George and Lakoff's
The term is explained in Mark Johnson's book The Body in the Mind, in case study 2 of George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things and by Rudolf Arnheim in Visual Thinking.
The book could be compared with George Lakoff's Moral Politics, which aims to answer a very similar question.
George Lakoff's " Syntactic Amalgams " paper in 1974 ( Chicago Linguistics Society, 1974 ) posed a challenge for the idea of transformational derivation.
The earliest study was " There-Constructions ," which appeared as Case Study 3 in George Lakoff's Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things.
For instance, observation of very different ideas of mathematics and physics in indigenous peoples led indirectly to ideas such as George Lakoff's " cognitive science of mathematics ", which asks if measurement systems themselves can be objective.

George and theory
By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of the alpha decay via tunneling.
A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George ( patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudi's home ), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.
The other was Lemaître's Big Bang theory, advocated and developed by George Gamow, who introduced big bang nucleosynthesis ( BBN ) and whose associates, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, predicted the cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMB ).
Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.
One was Lemaître's Big Bang theory, advocated and developed by George Gamow.
The basic theory of nucleosynthesis was developed in 1948 by George Gamow, Ralph Asher Alpher and Robert Herman.
According to an extreme empiricist theory known as Phenomenalism, anticipated by the arguments of both Hume and George Berkeley, a physical object is a kind of construction out of our experiences.
In 1969 the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics established the George Pólya Prize, given alternately in two categories for " a notable application of combinatorial theory " and for " a notable contribution in another area of interest to George Pólya.
* " The Hound of Heaven " was mentioned in the suicide note of George R. Price, a geneticist who pioneered the evolutionary theory of altruism and suicide ( among other things ), before becoming a committed Christian and giving away all his possessions to the poor.
In 1973 Maynard Smith formalised a central concept in evolutionary game theory called the evolutionarily stable strategy ( ESS ), based on a verbal argument by George R. Price.
Max Weber's article has been cited as a definitive refutation of the dependence of the economic theory of value on the laws of psychophysics by Lionel Robbins, George Stigler, and Friedrich Hayek, though the broader issue of the relation between economics and psychology has come back into the academic debate with the development of " behavioral economics.
His close friend George Stigler explained, " As is customary in science, he did not win a full victory, in part because research was directed along different lines by the theory of rational expectations, a newer approach developed by Robert Lucas, also at the University of Chicago.
The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when an American woman named Elizabeth ( Lizzie ) J. Magie Phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of Henry George ( it was intended to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies ).
Following the work of Paul Dirac in quantum field theory, George Sudarshan, Roy J. Glauber, and Leonard Mandel applied quantum theory to the electromagnetic field in the 1950s and 1960s to gain a more detailed understanding of photodetection and the statistics of light.
Augustus De Morgan and George Boole improved the exposition of the theory.
Like Packman, George Duckworth uses the scene headings in the manuscripts to support his theory about unnamed Plautine characters.
Personal Construct Psychology ( PCP ) is a theory of personality developed by the American psychologist George Kelly in the 1950s.
Scopes, who had substituted for the regular biology teacher, was charged on May 5, 1925, with teaching evolution from a chapter in Civic Biology, a textbook by George William Hunter, that described the theory of evolution.
H. Oskar Sommer first put forth this theory in his 1890 edition of Le Morte d ' Arthur and Harvard Professor George Lyman Kittredge provided the evidence in 1896.
An alternative theory, recently proposed by George Knysh, suggests that he was initially appointed in Avignon as a professor of philosophy in the Franciscan school, and that his disciplinary difficulties did not begin until 1327.
* Stigler, George J., The theory of price, New York 1987, 4th Ed.
The most widely accepted theory is that his friend, Pierre Jean George Cabanis, gave him a poison which he eventually used.
Sousa began his career playing violin and studying music theory and composition under John Esputa and George Felix Benkert.

George and moral
Translations of the Discourses ( e. g. by Elizabeth Carter, George Long ) have included the Enchiridion, and it has often been included with other moral writings from the ancient world, most notably the Tablet of Cebes.
Broadly speaking, artists linked with New Objectivity include Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Conrad Felixmüller, Christian Schad, and Rudolf Schlichter, who all " worked in different styles, but shared many themes: the horrors of war, social hypocrisy and moral decadence, the plight of the poor and the rise of Nazism ".
" According to critic George Morris, " it synthesizes every major Edwards theme: the disappearance of gallantry and honor, the tension between appearances and reality and the emotional, spiritual, moral, and psychological disorder " in such a world.
Baldwin and many of the more progressive members of the Conservative Party fundamentally opposed Lloyd George and those who supported him on moral grounds.
She saw it as her duty to provide moral support for her second son, the reserved and stammering Prince Albert, Duke of York, who ascended the throne on Edward's abdication, taking the name George VI.
As George ( 2008 ) notes, " in the course of time [...], it is no longer the gods guarding the Ṛta, the cosmic moral order, but the sacrifice becomes the ' protector of the order '", and " the one who sacrifices becomes the ' mortal hero ' who can even command a great god like Agni through the effectiveness of the sacrifice ".
In writing to George Devine, who directed the Old Vic production, Beckett suggests thatthe inquirer ( light ) begins to emerge as no less a victim of his inquiry than they and as needing to be free, within narrow limits, literally to act the part, i. e. to vary only slightly his speeds and intensities .” But the role of the light is even more ambiguous, for it has also been seen asa metaphor for our attention ( relentless, all-consuming, whimsical )” and a way of “ switching on and switching off speech exactly as a playwright does when he moves from one line of dialogue on his page to the next .” Neither of these analogies conflicts with the more popular views where the spotlight is believed by to represent God, or some other moral agent tasked with assessing, each character's case to be relieved from the binds of the urn by having them relive this relationship, which has ruined all their lives.
Rumours that Alleyn turned his attention towards charitable pursuits out of fear for his moral well-being have been traced to the journalist George Sala and questioned.
George Edward Moore bridged the idealistic and sociological views of ' critical ' and ' traditional ' conscience in stating that the idea of abstract ' rightness ' and the various degrees of the specific emotion excited by it are what constitute, for many persons, the specifically ' moral sentiment ' or conscience.
His play When Crummles Played, drawn from characters from Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby and featuring those characters performing Lillo's George Barnwell, an 18th-century moral melodrama, opened at the Garrick Theatre on October 1, 1928.
Prime Minister Goh alleged that, as a result of this, his " reputation, moral authority and leadership standing have been gravely injured both local and internationally ", and during cross-examination by Jeyaretnam's counsel, George Carman QC, likened the statement to throwing a Molotov cocktail.
Authors within this " tradition " were all characterised by a serious or responsible attitude to the moral complexity of life and included Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and D. H. Lawrence, but excluded Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens.
His views of the social self in his moral theorising are relevant to the views of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, George Herbert Mead, and Pragmatism.
By 1922 Birkenhead and Churchill had become the leading figures of the Lloyd George Coalition and associated with the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the attempt to go to war with Turkey over Chanak, later vetoed by the governments of the Dominions and, in Birkenhead's case if not Churchill's, the general whiff of moral and financial corruption which had come to surround the Coalition.
The initiative represented a central concern of Harding president George S. Benson, who believed that fighting socialism was a moral imperative, causing him to abandon the pacifism and political disengagement championed by founding influences James A. Harding and David Lipscomb, reversing the university's course and setting it on its current conservative political trajectory.
" George Maciunas was a genius, a man of passionate moral zeal, intellectual vigor, and artistic strength.
" George only partially resolves this moral crisis by, as he says, " idealiz Science.
At a conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of Steinbeck's birth, Stephen K. George declared: " With these authors Weeks, and Gannett I would contend that, given its multi-layered complexity, intriguing artistry, and clear moral purpose, The Winter of Our Discontent ranks in the upper echelon of Steinbeck ’ s fiction, alongside Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden, and, of course, The Grapes of Wrath.
Nunn May is a major character in the 2003 novel, The Cloud Chamber, by Clare George, a fictional account of Cambridge physicists in the 1930s which centers on the scientific excitement of the interwar years contrasted with the vexing moral questions faced by scientists during World War II.
Neumann attributed several of the radical social and economic goals, as well as the moral discourse associated with the 8th Point requirements, to the authors ' awareness of Marxist theories ( for a certain period, George Şerban had taught Marxism at the Timişoara Polytechnic University ).
George, Molly's husband, gives him a golden opportunity, but he and Clive argue furiously about the moral responsibility of the act.
After President George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004, however, many attributed the high turnout of Republican voters who claimed to be motivated by " moral values " as a sign that the Religious Right and social conservative factions of the party have gained considerable influence.
George Kastrioti made efforts to unite all moral and material resources of the individual families in a successful struggle against the Ottomans.
Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting " intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States.
George A. Kennedy in On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse remarks that ethos predominantly refers to themoral character ” of actions and mind.

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