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by mikhailfranco 1005 days ago
It's metaphors all the way down, until you hit sensory grounding, space and time.

Discrete objects give integer arithmetic. Correspondence gives equality. Spatio-temporal behavior gives basic logic: concurrent AND, choice OR, inside/outside, under/over, up/down, more/less... Properties and behaviors cluster to give categories in a context. Action frames give role bindings for actors...

It's Lakoff&Johnson all the way down.