Surfaces and essences : analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking
(2013)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
169/HOFSTADTER,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
©2013
©2013
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 578 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780465018475 (hbk.), 0465018475 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
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