Editing George Lakoff (section)

==Disagreement with Steven Pinker==
In 2006 [[Steven Pinker]] wrote an unfavorable review of Lakoff's book ''Whose Freedom?'' in ''[[The New Republic]]''.<ref>"[https://newrepublic.com/article/77730/block-metaphor-steven-pinker-whose-freedom-george-lakoff "Block that Metaphor!"] ''New Republic'' October 8, 2006.</ref> Pinker argued that Lakoff's propositions are unsupported, and his prescriptions are a recipe for electoral failure. He wrote that Lakoff was condescending and deplored Lakoff's "shameless caricaturing of beliefs" and his "faith in the power of euphemism." Pinker portrayed Lakoff's arguments as "cognitive relativism, in which mathematics, science, and philosophy are beauty contests between rival frames rather than attempts to characterize the nature of reality." Lakoff wrote a rebuttal to the review,<ref name="web.archive.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/whencognitivescienceenterspolitics |title=When cognitive science enters politics |access-date=2006-10-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517092902/http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/whencognitivescienceenterspolitics |archive-date=May 17, 2008 }}, rockridgeinstitute.org, 12 October 2006.</ref> stating that his position on many matters is the exact reverse of what Pinker attributes to him. Lakoff states that he explicitly rejects cognitive relativism, arguing that he is "a realist, both about how the mind works and how the world works. Given that the mind works by frames and metaphors, the challenge is to use such a mind to accurately characterize how the world works."<ref name="web.archive.org"/>