Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
Metaphor and Cognition : An Interactionist Approach :  An Interactionist Approach - B. Indurkhya

Metaphor and Cognition : An Interactionist Approach

An Interactionist Approach

By: B. Indurkhya

Hardcover | 1 April 1992

At a Glance

Hardcover


$329.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $82.25 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities. Such metaphors, which have been relegated to the back seat in most of the cognitive science research, are the focus of attention in this study, which addresses the creation of similarity within an elaborately laid out interactive framework of cognition. Starting from the constructivist views of Nelson Goodman and Jean Piaget, this framework resolves an apparent paradox in interactionism: how can reality not have a mind-independent ontology and structure, but still manage to constrain the possible worlds a cognitive agent can create in it?
A comprehensive theory of metaphor is proposed in this framework that explains how metaphors can create similarities, and why such metaphors are an invaluable asset to cognition. The framework is then applied to related issues of analogical reasoning, induction, and computational modeling of creative metaphors.

More in Philosophy of Language

Poetics of Relation - Édouard Glissant

RRP $24.99

$20.75

17%
OFF
The Infinite Alphabet : And the Laws of Knowledge - Cesar A. Hidalgo

RRP $59.99

$45.75

24%
OFF
Recognising the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative - Isabella Hammad
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Accommodationism in Mathematics : Reference, Knowledge, and Realism - Jeffrey W.  Roland
Derrida : A Very Short Introduction - Simon  Glendinning
Understanding Media Semiotics - Professor Marcel  Danesi
Understanding Media Semiotics - Professor Marcel  Danesi
Oppressive Speech and Society : Philosophical Perspectives - Mihaela Popa-Wyatt