ABSTRACT

Theories of rationality do not usually provide sufficient accounts of the possible metaphorical aspects of our thinking. Even major theoretical writings significantly depending upon metaphoric passages in their attempt to explore the logic of discovery hardly ever regard metaphoricity as essential to the structure of rationality. They use rather than explain metaphor. The question probably concems an entire philosophical orientation which fails to grant our metaphoric potential its proper role in the development of cognitive theories. In such a reduced perspective rational thought could then be considered as an algorithmic management of propositions. The incarnate condition and life cycle of humans engaged in enhancing their own rationality would thus have no significant bearing on the structure of thinking, which is ultimately viewed as transcending the nature of our bodily experiences.1 And even if it is tacitly acknowledged that our lived life influences philosophy, such a vital factor is often deemed unworthy of philosophical scrutiny.