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The Use of Metaphors in Scientific Development: A Logical Approach - D'Hanis (2002) (Correct)
....of this are: 2) Light is a fluid. 3) Sound is a wave. 4) The human mind is a clock. 5) The ocean is a conveyor belt. The use of these metaphors caused scientists to change their ideas about light (see, for example, 7] sounds (see, for example, 15] the human mind (see, for example, [19] and [10] and the ocean (see, for example, 6] Most studies about the use of metaphors in science, however, cannot provide a good explanation for their role in conceptual change. A large group of studies limits itself to a description of the phenomenon, without providing theoretical ....
Paul McReynolds. The clock metaphor in the history of psychology. In Nickles [21], pages 97 -- 112.
A Logical Approach to the Analysis of Metaphors - D'Hanis (2002) (5 citations) (Correct)
....Ghent University, Belgium Isabel.Dhanis rug.ac.be February 21, 2002 1 Introduction Metaphors are powerful instruments to generate new ideas. This is why they play an important role in scientific development. A famous example is the clock metaphor in psychology, studied by McReynolds in [14] (see also the next section) Another remarkable example is the role the metaphor (1) The ocean is a conveyor belt. played in oceanography. Bruning and Lohmann describe in [10] how this metaphor was used to construct an explanation for certain temperature changes. However, when we compare ....
....properties of clocks. They only had to analyse the properties of minds and the properties of clocks and decide what they had in common. This scenario seems plausible in cases where the metaphor is already known, but it cannot explain the conceptual innovations this metaphor caused (see also [14]) One of the merits of interactionism is that it can explain scientific innovations like this. The interactionist view was developed by Max Black in [8] and revised in [9] According to Black, a metaphor consists of two parts, a primary subject and a secondary subject. The primary subject is the ....
Paul McReynolds. The clock metaphor in the history of psychology. In Thomas Nickles, editor, Scientific Discovery: Case Studies, pages 97 -- 112. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1980.
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