Shane Williamson’s Reviews > The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding > Status Update
Shane Williamson
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"...our commonsense view of the body as an object among other objects in the world leads many people to dismiss the idea that meaning, thought, and mind can be understood as inextricably tied to our bodies." (275)
— Feb 01, 2026 09:28PM
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Shane Williamson
is on page 10 of 326
"Concepts that we think of as utterly divorced from physical things and sensorimotor experiences (concepts such as justice, mind, knowledge, truth, and democracy) are never really independent of our embodiment, because the semantic and inferential structure of these abstract concepts is drawn from our sensorimotor interactions, typically by cross-domain mappings (conceptual metaphors)." (273)
— Jan 31, 2026 09:00PM
