Intellectual Inquiry

Roles: theorist, theory, evidence, argument, insight, hypothesis, analysis

The pursuit of knowledge through theorizing, reasoning, and analysis. Encompasses theories, ideas, understanding, and intellectual work. As a target domain, it draws on an extraordinary range of sources — buildings, food, vision, plants, people, cutting instruments, fashion — each highlighting a different aspect of what it means to think.

As Target Frame (18)

• embodied-experience → Coherent Is Whole
• economics → Ideas Are Commodities
• manufacturing → Ideas Are Cutting Instruments
• social-behavior → Ideas Are Fashions
• food-and-cooking → Ideas Are Food
• vision → Ideas Are Light-Sources
• economics → Ideas Are Money
• social-roles → Ideas Are People
• embodied-experience → Ideas Are Objects
• horticulture → Ideas Are Plants
• manufacturing → Ideas Are Products
• economics → Ideas Are Resources
• puzzles-and-games → Problems Are Puzzles
• embodied-experience → Rational Is Up; Emotional Is Down
• embodied-experience → The Conduit Metaphor
• architecture-and-building → Theories Are Buildings
• vision → Understanding Is Seeing
• embodied-experience → Unknown Is Up; Known Is Down