Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander · 2013

Index

  • Prologue
  • 1. The Evocation of Words
  • 2. The Long Arm of Analogy
  • 3. A Vast Ocean of Invisible Analogies
  • 4. Abstraction and Inter-category Sliding
  • 5. How Analogies Manipulate Us
  • 6. Analogy-making as the Core of Cognition
  • 7. Naïve Analogies
  • 8. Analogies that Shook the World
  • Epilogue

Quote

"Analogy is the core of cognition."
"Every concept is born from a series of analogies."

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