Cognitive semantics and image schemas with embodied forces
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As an introduction, I want to contrast two general traditions in semantics, one realistic and one cognitive. According to the realistic approach to semantics the meaning of an expression is something out there in the world. In technical terms, a semantics for a language is defined as a mapping from the syntactic structures to things in the world. In philosophical ontological terms, this is thus a realistic theory. However, a realistic theory does not explain how a person can grasp the meanings of different words. Harnad (1987, p. 550) says that
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