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conceptual sky-hooks

Does "conceptual sky-hooks" mean "imaginative and non-scientific concepts"?

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Memes are an invention, an ingenious one perhaps, but at the end of the day conceptual sky-hooks, as the philosopher Mary Midegley observes.
  

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red apple Does "conceptual sky-hooks" mean "imaginative and non-scientific concepts"? Sky-hooks are metaphorical attaching points. Here, memes are metaphoric attaching or anchoring points for ideas or images, a sort of basis from which an idea or image is expanded or morphed.

  • red apple Does "conceptual sky-hooks" mean "imaginative and non-scientific concepts"?
  • Sky-hooks are metaphorical attaching points.
  • Here, memes are metaphoric attaching or anchoring points for ideas or images, a sort of basis from which an idea or image is expanded or morphed.
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red appleDoes "conceptual sky-hooks" mean "imaginative and non-scientific concepts"?
Sky-hooks are metaphorical attaching points. Here, memes are metaphoric attaching or anchoring points for ideas or images, a sort of basis from which an idea or image is expanded or morphed.

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