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So sensory data is a form of knowledge that's not a construct.[...]
Hopefully I'm not straying too far from your point here.
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Well, you're addressing something that I wasn't really getting at. I agree that the body is very important in this process, but I should have spent more time differentiating "meaning is metaphorical" and "knowledge is a construct".
After experiencing pain, hunger, fear, and so on as a baby, the reaction to the event enters the child's schema (part of the knowledge construct). From then on, the meaning of the event is apparent. "I didn't like this previous experience before, so I will avoid
similar experiences in the future." Even before language, the meaning of the experience is metaphorical because the one event
represents all events just like it that could happen.