Land Area -- Container Metaphors

We are physical beings, bounded and set off from the rest of the world by the surface of our skins, and we experience the rest of the world as outside us. Each of us is a container, with a bounding surface and as in-out orientation. We project our own in-out orientation onto other physical objects that are bounded by surfaces. Thus we also view them as containers with an inside and an outside. Rooms and houses are obvious containers. Moving from room to room is moving from one container to another, that is, moving ‘out of’ one room and ‘into’ another, that is, moving ‘out of one’ room and ‘into’ another. We can give solid objects this orientation, as when we break a rock open to see what’s inside it. We impose this orientation on our natural environment as well. A clearning in the woods is seen as having a bounding surface, and we can view ourselves as being ‘in’ the clearing or ‘out of’ clearing, in the woods or ‘out of’ woods. A clearing in the woods’ has something we can perceive as a natural boundary -- the fuzzy area where the trees more or less stop and clearing more or less begins. But even where there is no natural physical boundary that can be viewed as defining a container, we impose boundaries -- marking off territory so that it has an inside and a bounding surface -- whether a wall, a fence, or an abstract line or plane. There are few human instincts more basic than territoriality. And such defining of a territory, putting a boundary around it, is an act of quantification….. Page 29

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