But of course: I have just discovered, what I had not quite realized, that Lakoff and Johnson are the conscious heirs of American "Pragmatism." They hark back to Dewey, James, and Peirce (whom I not so much abominate as grow weary at the very mention of)--And that is why my revulsion against them is so instinctual and so visceral; so olfactory really. Life is far too short to spend time puzzling over Dewey's or James's mistaken notions of "embodied psychology," and the unholy mess they therefore make of epistemology.