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Second-hand knowledge: An inquiry into cognitive authority / Wilson (1983)

Citation - Wilson, P. (1983). Second-hand knowledge: An inquiry into cognitive authority. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press

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Our talk about what we think and what we learn is pervaded by metaphors, especially spatial and visual ones.
當我們要說出心中想的與學的,特別是都瀰漫著隱喻,特別是以具有空間體積,或可見的事物來比喻。(p.3)


The closer we are to some feature of social life, the bigger it seems to us–bigger in the sense of importance, salience, significance, bigger in the sense that it occupies a larger share of attention, effort, interest, reflection.
在社會生活中離我們越近的,顯得越大 – 越大表示越重要、突出、顯著,越大表示佔據了更多的注意、力氣、興趣與反覆思考。(p.4)


The concepts and theories and habitual modes of thoughts one carries around will determine how the world looks and what one makes of what one sees, as much as will the social location form which one views the world.
概念、理論與思考習慣,與社會地位一樣,決定了一個人對世界的看法。 (p.6)


A basic metaphysics and epistemology are parts of everyone's mental furniture. The name for them is common sense. As the anthropologist Clifford Geertz says, common sense is a theory of the world–a thin theory but nevertheless theory. (p.7)

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