SUO: RE: Re: Abstraction, Analogy, Example, Icon, Metaphor, Model, Morphism, Paradigm, Prototype, Simulation

["Philip Jackson" <phil.jackson@computer.org>]

Jon,

> | how we are able to extend our concept base for scientific knowledge,
> | e.g. via metaphoric application of concepts from one domain to another
> 
> Now here is a theme that I can almost rough out
> the gloss thereof -- enough to get a grip on it.
> 
> In fact, I have a reel (and a ballast, and a jig, and a strathspey)
> of archived material, already airsouled and pressurized in the can.
> 
> "Analogy, Metaphor, Transfer"?
> 
> I will find this stuff and get back to you.
> 

OK, I will look forward to it.

Cheers,

Phil
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