I don't know if I grasp Lakoff's theory correctly, specially its relation to epistemology. But it seems a good idea to understand that knowledge - if you are an embodied being - can only be obtained through the lenses of your embodiment. Like embodiment is something that causes a form of distortion ... or what you consider knowledge is knowledge only related to your embodiment (which maybe is not the same thing as the first part of this sentence). So all knowledge is considered knowledge because you are embodied in this way and not in the other way. If lions could reason and talk, what would be knowledge for a lion would be different from what is knowledge for a human being.
But I will try to understand how knowledge can be independent from language and embodiment (cognitive linguistics).
Elisa
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