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Publication details [#9075]
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
body and mind | cross-contextual cognition | hermeneutics | knowledge and metaphor | literal/metaphorical | Literalness | meaning and metaphor | metaphor death | metaphor-body problem | metaphorical projection | new knowledge | old knowledge | philosophy | polysemic chain of meaning | world-making and metaphor
ISBN
0792343565
Abstract
Table of contents:
1. The Limits of Literalness
2. The Polysemic Chain of Meaning
3. Difficulties With Diagnosing the Death of a Metaphor
4. The Metaphorical Measure Of Meaning in Science
5. How is Radically New Knowledge Possible? Or: Bridging the New and the Old in a Metaphorical Way
6. How to Make Our Ideas Clear With Metaphors
7. Toward a Metaphor-Body Problem
8. Artificial Intelligence and the Natural Body
9. Key-Metaphors: A Case of Cross-Contextual Cognition
10. Of Mind, Metaphysics and Other Matters
11. How to Make Worlds With Metaphors
12. Metaphorical Projections of Possible Worlds