Lakoff in a sentence

In Lakoff's analysis, Conservatives are driven by a "strict father" morality - you will succeed, and be rewarded if you "work hard", and follow the dictates of industry.

In his books Don’t Think of an Elephant, Lakoff discusses how the political divide is associated with differing values more than with disagreement over facts and logic.

Lakoff is best known for penning a Democratic campaign bible,“Don’t Think of an Elephant!

Among his activities with the Institute, which concentrates in part on helping liberal candidates and politicians with re-framing political metaphors, Lakoff has given numerous public lectures and written accounts of his message from Moral Politics.

But Lakoff takes this further to explain why hypotheses built with complex metaphors cannot be directly falsified.

Chomsky goes further and claims that Lakoff has "virtually no comprehension of the work he is discussing" (the work in question being Chomsky's).

Critical response Many working mathematicians resist the approach and conclusions of Lakoff and Núñez.

For Lakoff, the development of thought has been the process of developing better metaphors.

For this alone Lakoff argues, Whorf can be considered to be "Not just a pioneer in linguistics, but a pioneer as a human being".

Human cognition and mathematics Lakoff and Núñez's avowed purpose is to begin laying the foundations for a truly scientific understanding of mathematics, one grounded in processes common to all human cognition.

If the soul can not have any of the properties of the body, then Lakoff claims it can not feel, perceive, think, be conscious, or have a personality.

If this is true, then Lakoff asks what would be the point of the afterlife?

In the realm of linguistics, Noam Chomsky and George Lakoff have been influential (both have also become notable as political commentators).

Lakoff also argued that metaphor plays an important part in political debates such as the "right to life" or the "right to choose"; or "illegal aliens" or "undocumented workers".

Lakoff and Johnson give several examples of daily metaphors we use, such as "argument is war" and "time is money".

Lakoff and Núñez are not the first to argue that conventional approaches to the philosophy of mathematics are flawed.

Lakoff and Núñez conclude that while the potential infinite is not metaphorical, the actual infinite is.

Lakoff and Núñez hold that mathematics results from the human cognitive apparatus and must therefore be understood in cognitive terms.

Lakoff and Núñez maintain that their argument can only be understood using the discoveries of recent decades about the way human brains process language and meaning.

Lakoff and Rafael E. Núñez (2000) argue at length that mathematical and philosophical ideas are best understood in light of the embodied mind.