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Extremities of Perception
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 39, Number 5, October 2006
- pp. 467-468
- Article
- Additional Information
The authors present their collaborative exploration of the use of metaphor in science. If scientific writing is dependent to a large degree on metaphor, then to what extent is scientific thought itself dependent on metaphoric or analogical perception? The authors discuss the use of metaphor in scientific thought as a process of transferred pattern recognition.