Philosophy

Roles: argument, premise, conclusion, category, essence, substance, form, teleology

Systematic inquiry into fundamental questions about reality, knowledge, and value. As a target domain, philosophy receives metaphors from virtually every source frame — war (attacking arguments), architecture (building systems), vision (seeing the truth). As a source frame, it exports structural distinctions (essential vs. accidental, form vs. matter) that organize thinking in other fields. Its roles (argument, premise, category) provide the vocabulary for reasoning about reasoning.

As Source Frame (5)

• Amor Fati
• Premeditatio Malorum
• Sympatheia
• The Obstacle Is the Way
• View from Above

Applied To This Frame (8)

• ecology → Balance of Nature
• banqueting → Life Is a Banquet
• medicine → Philosophy Is Medicine
• archery → The Archer
• animal-husbandry → The Dog Tied to the Cart
• navigation → The Helmsman
• geology → The Promontory
• craftsmanship → Virtue Is the Art of Living