Surfaces and essences : analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking By Douglas R. Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander

By:

Hofstadter, Douglas R & Sander, Emmanuel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Basic Books, New York, 2013Edition: 1Description: xiv, 578 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:

9780465018475

Subject(s):

Analogy, reasoning

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Contents:

Prologue: Analogy as the Core of Cognition 1. The Evocation of Words 2. The Evocation of Phrases 3. A Vast Ocean of Invisible Analogies 4. Abstraction and Inter-category Sliding 5. How Analogies Manipulate Us 6. How We Manipulate Analogies 7. Naive Analogies 8. Analogies that Shook the World Epidialogue: Katy and Anna Debate the Core of Cognition

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