Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought by Paul Thagard, Keith J. Holyoak

Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought

Paul Thagard, Keith J. Holyoak

334 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

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Analogy--recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones--is a mental tool that everyone uses. Analogy can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. In Mental Leaps two leading cognitive scientists ...

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