Hofstadter, Douglas R & Sander, Emmanuel

Surfaces and essences : analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking By Douglas R. Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander - 1 - Basic Books, New York, 2013 - xiv, 578 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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Analogy, reasoning

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