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Metaphors We Live By: Book V: Thinking, Truth, & Meaning
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Series: Metaphors We Live by, Book 5
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ISBN13: 9798251418514
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 9 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 9 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Thinking is often imagined as a search for truth. In practice, it is more often a process of compression. The world contains more complexity than the mind can carry, so thinking simplifies. Reality becomes models, beliefs, patterns, and stories that make action possible. These simplifications are useful.
But they also distort. Metaphors We Live By: Thinking, Truth, & Meaning is a collection of forty essays exploring how beliefs form, how ideas spread, and how meaning emerges from the patterns the mind detects. Inside, you will explore: - Why belief functions as a shortcut through complexity
- How thinking compresses reality into manageable models
- Why ideas spread based on fitness rather than truth
- How meaning emerges from pattern recognition
- Why truth often carries a cognitive and emotional cost
- How stories survive by working rather than by being accurate This is not a guide to better thinking. It is a series of observations about how the mind compresses reality into beliefs, patterns, and meaning. For those interested in how the mind constructs reality.
Or what is lost in the process.
- How thinking compresses reality into manageable models
- Why ideas spread based on fitness rather than truth
- How meaning emerges from pattern recognition
- Why truth often carries a cognitive and emotional cost
- How stories survive by working rather than by being accurate This is not a guide to better thinking. It is a series of observations about how the mind compresses reality into beliefs, patterns, and meaning. For those interested in how the mind constructs reality.
Or what is lost in the process.
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