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Words That Work, written by Republican political strategist Frank Luntz.
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
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All of this discourse about how Dems should strategize to win seems a bit like aliens trying to reason from first principles and unreliable issue polling about how to win a human election.
Yes, of course it’s possible in principle that omniscient Dem strategists would figure it out. But having basically no theory of mind when it comes to th... See more
What's the plan to win the Senate?
Here the object is viewed as a container for the material.
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
The MORE IS BETTER metaphor overlaps with all of the ARGUMENT metaphors
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
So here is the truly odd political choice that we are given today: a sick version of a higher level versus a healthy version of a lower level—liberalism versus conservatism.
Ken Wilber • A Theory of Everything
In making a statement, we make a choice of categories because we have some reason for focusing on certain properties and downplaying others.
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
Her book argues that all too often, the people responsible for the products and policies that shape our lives implicitly view the default customer—or citizen—as male.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
Forms of discourse shape our conceptual architecture…the sophistication of our thinking is determined to a large degree by the sophistication of the language we hear used to describe our world.
The sirens call, Chris Hayes
carries over to the metaphor an argument is a journey.