Simple cuts can often seem meaningful (e.g., the cut between "body" and "support"). Power of such ideas is that they can be extended to many domains via bridging definitions. "But the point is that it is not enough just ot link together descriptions from two different worlds ... we must also know how this is done.
(NB: I didn't get it from this section, but later it is quite evident that Minsky views body-support as a fundamental idea, much like the cultural metaphors that Lakoff and Johnson argue permeate language. At my first reading of this chapter, I focussed instead on the distinction between knowing how and knowing that, and wondered whether the requirement for both of these kinds of knowledge analogous to Minsky's notion here of detailed structure/function links.)
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