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A multiple analogy is a structured comparison in which several sources are likened to a target. In Multiple analogies in science and philosophy, Shelley provides a thorough account of the cognitive representations and processes that participate in multiple analogy formation. Through analysis of real...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shelley, Cameron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2003.
Colección:Human cognitive processing ; v. 11.
Temas:
Plato. > Republic.
Republic (Plato)
Analogy.
Evolution (Biology) > Philosophy.
Archaeology > Philosophy.
Analogie (Philosophie)
analogy.
PHILOSOPHY > Logic.
Analogy
Archaeology > Philosophy
Evolution (Biology) > Philosophy
Analogieën.
Argumentatieleer.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC page
  • Table of contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The problem of multiple analogies
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Analogy as induction
  • 1.3. Analogy as shared structure
  • 1.4. Overview
  • 2. Multiple analogies and ò̀ld fourlegs''
  • 2.1. Analogies in science
  • 2.2. Single analogies in the Multiconstraint theory
  • 2.3. Analogies in evolutionary biology
  • 2.4. Coelacanth: The living fossil
  • 2.5. Implications for multiple analogies.
  • 2.5.1. Structural consistency
  • 2.5.2. Corroboration
  • 2.5.3. Abstraction and exemplification
  • 2.5.4. Supplementation
  • 2.5.5. Disanalogy and extension
  • 2.6. Summary
  • 3. Multiple analogies from the Mesozoic
  • 3.1. Analogies and evolutionary theory
  • 3.2. Ceratopsians: The horned dinosaurs
  • 3.3. Archaeopteryx: The first bird
  • 3.4. Implications for multiple analogies
  • 3.4.1. Visual representations
  • 3.4.2. Evolutionary scenarios
  • 3.4.3. Fecundity
  • 3.5. Summary
  • 4. Multiple analogies in archaeology
  • 4.1. Analogies in archaeology
  • 4.2. Peruvian pots.
  • 4.3. Greek figurine legs
  • 4.4. Clovis mammoth harvesting
  • 4.5. Implications for multiple analogies
  • 4.5.1. Visual imagery
  • 4.5.2. Specificity
  • 4.5.3. Supplementation
  • 4.6. Analogies in archaeological inference
  • 4.7. Summary
  • 5. Multiple analogies in Plato's Republic
  • 5.1. Analogies in Plato's philosophy
  • 5.2. The function of the soul
  • 5.3. Health and justice
  • 5.4. Plato's condemnation of the poet
  • 5.5. Implications for multiple analogies
  • 5.5.1. Complementation and narrative representation
  • 5.5.2. Specificity
  • 5.5.3. Supplementation.
  • 5.6. Plato on multiple analogies
  • 5.7. Summary
  • 6. Modelling multiple analogies
  • 6.1. Multiple analogies in perspective
  • 6.2. Structural consistency and independence
  • 6.3. Purpose and planning
  • 6.4. Representational modalities
  • 6.4.1. Verbal
  • 6.4.2. Visual
  • 6.4.3. Narrative
  • 6.5. Processes
  • 6.5.1. Abstraction and exemplification
  • 6.5.2. Supplementation
  • 6.5.3. Specificity
  • 6.6. Philosophy of science
  • 6.6.1. Disanalogy and extension
  • 6.6.2. Fecundity and theory change
  • 6.6.3. Evolutionary scenarios
  • 6.6.4. Archaeological scenarios.
  • 6.6.5. Discovery versus justification
  • 6.7. Concluding remarks
  • Historical review
  • a.1. Plato
  • a.2. Aristotle
  • a.3. Bacon
  • a.4. Mill
  • a.5. Shared structure theory
  • Notes
  • 24pt
  • References
  • Index
  • The series HUMAN COGNITIVE PROCESSING.

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