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" Surfaces and essences : "
Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander
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BL
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629065
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Hofstadter, Douglas R.,1945-
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Surfaces and essences : : analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking /\ Douglas Hofstadter Emmanuel Sander
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xiv, 578 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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9780465018475 (hbk.)
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: 0465018475 (hbk.)
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9780465021581 (e-book)
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0465021581 (e-book)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-555) and index
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| Contents
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Analogy as the Core of Cognition -- The Evocation of Words -- The Evocation of Phrases -- A Vast Ocean of Invisible Analogies -- Abstraction and Inter-category Sliding -- How Analogies Manipulate Us -- How We Manipulate Analogies -- Naïve Analogies -- Analogies that Shook the World -- Katy and Anna Debate the Core of Cognition
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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
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Analogy
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Reasoning
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169
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BD190.H64 2013
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Sander, Emmanuel
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