Surfaces and essences
"Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situations, and giving rise to great acts of imagination."--Publisher.
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- Full title :Surfaces and essences / Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander.
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"Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situations, and giving rise to great acts of imagination."--Publisher.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Basic Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 578 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0465018475, 9780465018475
- oclc:ocn830327978
- LC Classification:BD190
- Dewey Decimal:169
Table of Contents
Words of thanks -- Prologue : Analogy as the core of cognition -- The evocation of word -- The evocation of phrases -- A vast ocean of invisible analogies -- abstraction and inter-category sliding -- How analogies manipulate us -- How we manipulate analogies -- Naive analogies -- Analogies that shook the world -- Epidialogue : Katy and Anna debate the core of cognition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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