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1 " ...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the undertaking is set. That is an empirical job for cognitive science and cognitive semantics. ... Unless this job is done, we will not know whether the answers philosophers give to their questions are a function of the conceptualization built into the questions themselves. "
― George Lakoff , Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
