Concept
lintel
2 writings
- the arch routes what the lintel resists A lintel resists load head-on in brittle tension; an arch routes the same load around its void and returns it as locking compression — two topologies that distinguish how a meaning handles what it excludes.
- terroir at the crossing Choosing a metaphor is choosing a soil: the source domain's structural logic persists as terroir in target-domain thinking, making dead metaphors into shaped biases whose specific blindspots can be traced back to the origin domain.