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2023
Abstract Ellen Bialystok’s research on bilingualism and cognition has transformed our understanding of how life experience with two or more languages has enduring consequences for the mind and the brain. But how do these consequences arise?
Judith F. Kroll, Eleonora Rossi
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Abstract Ellen Bialystok’s research on bilingualism and cognition has transformed our understanding of how life experience with two or more languages has enduring consequences for the mind and the brain. But how do these consequences arise?
Judith F. Kroll, Eleonora Rossi
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Representing Virtual Places - A Design Model for Metaphorical Design
, 2000 The design of virtual places is metaphorical because it relies on references to the physical world. The use of a consistent metaphor provides a sense of place that combines functionality, familiarity, richness and an awareness of the presence of others ...
Fei Li, Mary Lou Maher
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Metaphors and models in medicine
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 1999This paper aims to show how medical scientists may use metaphor in ways closely parallel to poets. Those who believe metaphor has any role at all in science may describe its use in various ways. Associationists think metaphors are based upon likenesses, and collapse the notions of model and metaphor together.
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Metaphors, models and bioinformation
Biosystems, 1996The notion of bioinformation is central to the biosciences. This short paper examines a number of metaphors which are intimately related to this idea. These include metaphors about 'system' as well as metaphors associated with biosystem as 'text'. A framework its presented which allows ideas about biosystems and computer systems to be displaced and a ...
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Models, Mathematics and Metaphors
Synthese, 1963In exposing the process by which scientific knowledge is accumulated, the epistemologist deals primarily with two problems. First, what is the logical structure of the statements of science, and second, what is the experimental content of the entities in these statements?
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Conceptual modeling by analogy and metaphor
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management, 2007Metaphor is not merely a rhetorical device, characteristic of language alone, but rather a fundamental feature of the human conceptual system. A metaphor is understood by finding an analogy mapping between two domains. This paper argues that analogy mappings facilitate conceptual modeling by allowing the designer to reinterpret fragments of familiar ...
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Philosophy, 1964
Like his earlier Language and Philosophy (1949). and Problems of Analysis (1954), Models and Metaphors is a collection of Black's papers unified by the belief that linguistic considerations can play an important part in framing and solving philosophical problems.
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Like his earlier Language and Philosophy (1949). and Problems of Analysis (1954), Models and Metaphors is a collection of Black's papers unified by the belief that linguistic considerations can play an important part in framing and solving philosophical problems.
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Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 1991
This article examines human interest in model building (ships, boats, trains, etc.) and draws parallels between models and (poetic) metaphors that, it is hoped, illumine both phenomena. Both models and metaphors involve important alterations of original realities in size and material.
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This article examines human interest in model building (ships, boats, trains, etc.) and draws parallels between models and (poetic) metaphors that, it is hoped, illumine both phenomena. Both models and metaphors involve important alterations of original realities in size and material.
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2003
Abstract This chapter discusses the problematic character of Integrated Assessment (IA) computer models of global change. Reflecting on ‘models as metaphors’, the chapter applies the concept of extended peer community, originating from the school of post-normal science, to a process of model-based deliberation.
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Abstract This chapter discusses the problematic character of Integrated Assessment (IA) computer models of global change. Reflecting on ‘models as metaphors’, the chapter applies the concept of extended peer community, originating from the school of post-normal science, to a process of model-based deliberation.
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