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Has Glenberg forgotten his nurse?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Arthur M. Jacobs
Affiliation:
Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 13402 Marseilles Cedex 20, Francejacobs@lnf.cnrs-mrs.fr
Johannes C. Ziegler
Affiliation:
Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 13402 Marseilles Cedex 20, Francejacobs@lnf.cnrs-mrs.fr

Abstract

Glenberg's conception of “meaning from and for action” is too narrow. For example, it provides no satisfactory account of the “logic of Elfland,” a metaphor used by Chesterton to refer to meaning acquired by being told something.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

G. K. Chesterton (in Gardner 1994, p. 101)

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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