Conceptual Metaphor Of Perception as Movement in Ibn Sina's Epistemology

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD student of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Islamic Azad University, Sobzvar, Iran.

2 Hakim Sabzevari University

3 Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theosophy, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran

10.48308/kj.2024.233949.1209

Abstract

In the contemporary view, metaphor is the transfer of the inferential pattern of the source area to the destination area, based on which many philosophical concepts can be reconstructed. The way of perception and its different stages in Avicenna’s philosophy can be understood and explained in a metaphorical way and based on the metaphor of the event structure of Lakoff and Johnson and the definition of movement given by Avicenna. The movement schema is the basis of the event structure metaphor, which is composed of the macro metaphor “perception is movement” from the combination of the primary metaphors “knowledge is movement” and “science is movement”; and it is capable of reconstructing all types of perception, including partial and general perception, and in that general movement includes micro-movements that form sub-metaphors of the macrometaphor of movement. Each of these sub-metaphors focuses on an aspect of the perception process and highlights it. This article aims to present a new reading of Avicenna’s epistemology with the approach of conceptual metaphor through the expression of the domain of  erception by movement. 

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  • Receive Date: 29 November 2023
  • Revise Date: 20 January 2024
  • Accept Date: 10 March 2024

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