Cognitive history<\/p>\n
How was mind imagined?<\/h3>\n
The project asks how Plutarch and his intellectual world conceptualized mental life: reason, memory, knowledge, attention, learning, error, judgement, and related activities. These patterns are treated as evidence for historically situated models of mind, not merely as ornaments of style.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Folk epistemology<\/p>\n Metaphors of cognition help reconstruct assumptions about who can know, how knowledge is acquired, how ignorance or false belief is pictured, and how mental activity relates to education, moral responsibility, family life, and political authority.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Metaphor analysis<\/p>\n Instead of collecting striking examples only, the corpus records source-target mappings systematically, allowing researchers to compare recurrent metaphor families with rare, creative, or text-specific images.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Philology and data<\/p>\n The Observatory is designed to keep quantitative analysis tied to textual evidence. Counts, filters, and network views lead back to Greek passages, annotation notes, and interpretive decisions.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Inspect passages<\/p>\n Move from a conceptual query, such as Compare mappings<\/p>\n Explore source and target scenes, hierarchical paths, subframes, metaphor types, lexical units, lemmata, coder notes, and provenance.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Build arguments<\/p>\n Use the data to ask which source domains shape particular categories of thinking, which patterns are shared across works, and where Plutarch’s metaphorical language becomes unusually dense or original.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Use the data<\/p>\n The corpus supports work-first browsing, metaphor filtering, lexical search, catalogue queries, visual summaries, and machine-readable reuse once release policy is finalized.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Concept and aims<\/p>\n Read about the research question, Plutarch’s importance, folk epistemology, and the theoretical background.<\/p>\nWhat counts as knowing?<\/h3>\n
What conceptual patterns recur?<\/h3>\n
How can close reading scale?<\/h3>\n
Why Plutarch?<\/h2>\n
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What the Observatory lets you do<\/h2>\n
From pattern to Greek text<\/h3>\n
CONTAINER → MIND<\/code>, to the exact Plutarchan fragments that instantiate it.<\/p>\n<\/article>\nScenes and subframes<\/h3>\n
Evidence for cognitive history<\/h3>\n
Human-readable and reusable<\/h3>\n
Project<\/h3>\n