A clearing in the forest : law, life, and mind
A "revolution" in the cognitive sciences has irrevocable transformed our basic understanding of the mind, establishing that imagination is both central to cognition and that imagination is an orderly, systematic, embodied process. This book applies this understanding to the discipline of law.
Print Book, English, 2003, ©2001
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003, ©2001
xx, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780226902210, 9780226902227, 0226902218, 0226902226
496019509
A Clearing in the Forest
Embodiment
What Is Metaphor?
Radial Categories
Compositional Structure
The Doctrinal Wheel
What Is the "Color of Law"?
How Do Rules Work?
Reasoning by Analogy
Innovation
Within Reason
Meaning and Making