Geometry

Roles: point, line, plane, angle, distance, center, periphery, configuration

The study of spatial relationships between abstract objects — points, lines, planes, and the figures they compose. Geometry provides a vocabulary of position, distance, centrality, and pattern that pervades everyday reasoning about non-spatial domains. When we speak of “the point” of an argument, the “central” issue, or a “tangential” remark, we are borrowing from this frame. Its power as a source domain comes from the precision and universality of spatial intuition; its danger comes from imposing that precision on domains that resist it.

As Source Frame (8)

• Circle of Competence
• Facts Are Points → intellectual-inquiry
• Inversion
• Light Is A Line → natural-phenomena
• Morality Is Straightness → ethics-and-morality
• Perception Is Shape Recognition → vision
• States Are Shapes → event-structure
• T-Shaped People → organizational-behavior

Applied To This Frame (2)

• embodied-experience → Form Is Motion
• containers → Shapes Are Containers