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“Common or default recruitments are a phenomenon of thought in general: we are always ready to use default conceptual connections as we think. It is important to recognize, however, that common, default recruitments do not give us fixed basic concepts: we can always unplug the default connections; they are, in technical jargon, “defeasible.” They look stable and fixed sometimes, but only because they are entrenched.”

Mark Turner, The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language
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The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language by Mark Turner
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