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January 1996
333 pp., 31 illus.
$32.00/£23.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-58144-2
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-58144-8

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Cloth (1994)
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Bradford Books
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Mental Leaps
Analogy in Creative Thought
Keith J. Holyoak and Paul Thagard

Preface
Acknowledgments
First Steps
    A Bird's Backyard
    Analogic
    From Socrates to Velcro and Vietnam
    Indirect Communication
    Ripples in the Air
    Creative Connections
    Overview
Breaking Loose
    Funes in Chains
    From Reacting to Thinking
    Similarity
    Structure
    Models
    Purpose and Cause
    Summary
The Analogical Ape
    Sameness
    What Sarah Thinks
    How Thought Evolved
    The Analogies of Apes
    The Invention of Problems
    Hitting the Wall
    Summary
The Analogical Child
    Lori's Magic Carpet
    Toward System Mapping
    First Relations
    Early Relational Mapping
    Personification
    The Next Steps
    Summary
The Construction of Similarity
    Making Saddam into Hitler
    The Tumor and the Fortress
    Selection
    Mapping
    Evaluation
    Learning
    Summary
What Is to Be Done?
    Howard's Dilemma
    Coherent Decisions
    Houses and Baseball Players
    Courtroom Analogies
    Lessons of the Past
    World War II
    Korean War
    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Swine Flu Scare
    No More Vietnams
    Summary
Wondering Why
    Gods Like Us
    Plato's Cave
    Designing the World
    Other Minds
    Intuition Pumps
    Asian Analogies
    Summary
The Analogical Scientist
    Great Scientific Analogies
    Purposes
    Cognitive Mechanisms
    Social Sciences
    Invention and Design
    Educating Scientists
    Lessons
    Summary
The Web of Culture
    The Japanese Tea Ceremony
    Star Trek and the Hidden Paths
    What Is Metaphor?
    The Analogical Basis
    Metaphorical Extensions
    Laughter and Love
    Analogy as Therapy
    Making Magic
    Summary
The Analogical Computer
    Looking Backward
    The Computational Mind
    Parallel Constraint Satisfaction
    Mapping
    Retrieval
    The Competition
    The Future of Analogy
Notes
References
Index
  
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