Quotes from Mark Turner

Death is the Mother of Beauty

Common or default recruitments are a phenomenon of thought in general: we are always ready to use default conceptual connections as we think. It is important to recognize, however, that common, default recruitments do not give us fixed basic concepts: we can always unplug the default connections; they are, in technical jargon, "defeasible." They look stable and fixed sometimes, but only because they are entrenched.