An edition of Mental leaps (1994)

Mental leaps

analogy in creative thought

By Keith James Holyoak,Keith J. Holyoak,Paul Thagard

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Publish Date

1995

Publisher

MIT Press

Language

eng

Pages

320

Description:

"Analogy - recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones - can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. In Mental Leaps, two leading cognitive scientists show how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively." --Cover.

subjects: Creative thinking, Analogy, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Logic, Philosophy & theory of psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Research & Methodology, Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology, Creativity, Psychology, PHILOSOPHY, Philosophy & Religion, Speculative Philosophy