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Surfaces and Essences
Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
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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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Surfaces and Essences, Douglas R. Hofstadter
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- Released
- 2012
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- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Surfaces and Essences
- Subtitle
- Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Publisher
- Perseus
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 578
- ISBN10
- 0465018475
- ISBN13
- 9780465018475
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Science, USA, Linguistics, Humanities, Logic, Thinking, Philosophy of Science
- Description
- 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.