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Journal articles on the topic "Geometrical metaphors"

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Chen-Morris, Raz. "Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe." Nuncius 35, no. 2 (2020): 387–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03502011.

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Abstract In his Della Pittura, Leon Battista Alberti initiated what I call a “utopian moment,” a philosophical and practical disposition fusing human ingenuity, geometry, and political harmony. This paper follows these notions as they evolved over the course of the sixteenth century and were embraced by the new science of Johannes Kepler and René Descartes, who reshaped these utopian dispositions with their new geometrical analyses of sight and light. In his Dioptrice, Kepler suggests a new science of refractions produced and manipulated artificially through lenses, their physical properties a
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Nardi, Elena. "THE NOVICE MATHEMATICIAN'S INQUIRY ABOUT NEW CONCEPTS: BESTOWING MEANING THROUGH AMBIVALENT USES OF GEOMETRICAL METAPHORS." Advances in Mathematics Education 1, no. 1 (1999): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14794809909461546.

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Afsar Guliyeva, Aynur. "Geometric metaphors in English language." SCIENTIFIC WORK 56, no. 07 (2020): 24–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/56/24-27.

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The article is devoted to the study of geometric metaphor in the modern English language. Metaphor quite often can be found both in English and in many other languages. Very often metaphors are associated with the letter, but without noticing it, they often use them in everyday speech. The role of a metaphor in the English language is to diversify speech with turns that have a figurative meaning that gives expressiveness to phrases and sentences. To make English speech not only literate, but also beautiful. Metaphors enrich the language and show a high level of language proficiency. Therefore,
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Kristjánsdóttir, Bergljót Soffía. "„Orðin laðast að henni / eins og skortur“." Ritið 18, no. 2 (2018): 139–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.33112/ritid.18.2.7.

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Alda Björk Valdimarsdóttir’s book of poetry, We Who Are Blind and Nameless, was published in 2015. The first part of the book, titled „The course of signs“, lays the groundwork for the conceptual basis of the work through five poems. These five poems will be examined through close reading and scholarly materials from various sources, such as cognitive literary studies, philosophy, psychology, social studies and neurological research. There is particular focus on how the poems stimulate the imagination of readers and ruffle their feelings; there is a discussion on (conceptual) metaphors, irony,
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Cornejo, Carlos, Himmbler Olivares, and Pablo Rojas. "The physiognomic and the geometrical apprehensions of metaphor." Culture & Psychology 19, no. 4 (2013): 484–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x13500330.

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Menn, Stephen. "Plato and the Method of Analysis." Phronesis 47, no. 3 (2002): 193–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685280260458127.

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AbstractLate ancient Platonists and Aristotelians describe the method of reasoning to first principles as "analysis." This is a metaphor from geometrical practice. How far back were philosophers taking geometric analysis as a model for philosophy, and what work did they mean this model to do? After giving a logical description of analysis in geometry, and arguing that the standard (not entirely accurate) late ancient logical description of analysis was already familiar in the time of Plato and Aristotle, I argue that Plato, in the second geometrical passage of the Meno (86e4-87b2), is taking a
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Lass, Roger. "Conventionalism, Invention, and 'Historical Reality'." Diachronica 3, no. 1 (1986): 15–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.3.1.03las.

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SUMMARY Historical Linguistics is less realist and much more conventinal-ist than many of us think or like to think. Historical 'truth', by virtue of the epistemological status of the past, is not attainable in the same sense as 'truth' in nonhistorical disciplines. Theories and techniques are therefore partly constitutive of 'data': or the histo-riogaphy partly creates its own subject-matter. Theory-based creation enters via two kinds of interventions: (a) the use of present-based constraints as determinants of what historical events must have been or most probably were ('uniformitarianism');
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Lin, Zhengjun, and Shengxi Jin. "Metonymic and metaphoric meaning extensions of Chinese FACE and its collocations." Pragmatics and Society 11, no. 1 (2020): 96–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.17008.lin.

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Abstract This paper studies the extension of conventional meanings of Chinese FACE expressions in their collocations as well as the collocations themselves through metonymy and metaphor. The data with five FACE expressions included are sampled from the corpus of Center for Chinese Linguistics at Peking University. The conventional meaning of these five FACE expressions is ‘the surface of the front of the head from the top of the forehead to the base of the chin and from ear to ear’. The conventional meaning of FACE in its collocations is metonymically extended to ‘facial expression, emotion, a
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Yglesias, Caren. "To Build a Metaphor: L’Enfant’s Design for the City of Washington." Journal of Planning History 18, no. 3 (2018): 172–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538513218798346.

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Recent scholarship provides evidence for reconsidering the original urban plan for Washington, DC, one of the world’s few planned cities. Commissioned by President George Washington in 1791, Pierre L’Enfant did not, as some scholarship claims, simply follow baroque urban design concepts with associated geometric patterns for his design. Rather, the character of the land guided the location of public squares, each for a state with a “reciprocity of sight” along communicating avenues. L’Enfant conceived of these individual but visually linked state districts as a metaphor that demonstrated a new
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Weiss, Gunter. "GEOMETRY. WHAT ELSE !? - MORE OF “ENVIRONMENTAL GEOMETRY”." Boletim da Aproged, no. 34 (December 2018): 9–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/2184-4933_2018-0034_0001.

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This paper is an addendum to a previous article [01] in which several examples demonstrate that “all natural or artificial objects have a shape or form resulting from a natural (bio-physical) or technical (design) process, and therefore have an intrinsic (immanent) geometric constituent”, focusing on the fact that “reality reveals geometry and geometry creates reality”. Since many objects are metaphors for geometric and mathematical content and the starting point for mathematical abstraction, one can conclude that geometry is simply everywhere. This sort of “Appendix” focuses on the symbiotic
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Geometrical metaphors"

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Kynigos, Polychronis. "From intrinsic to non-intrinsic geometry : a study of children's understandings in Logo-based microworlds." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1988. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020179/.

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The aim of the present study was to investigate the potential for children to use the turtle methaphor to develop understandings of intrinsic, euclidean and cartesian geometrical ideas. Four aspects of the problem were investigated. a) the nature of the schema children form when they identify with the turtle in order to change its state on the screen; b) whether it is possible for them to use the schema to gain insights into certain basic geometrical principles of the cartesian geometrical system; c) how they might use the schema to form understandings of euclidean geometry developed inductive
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Makgopa, Mokgale Albert. "Closure as reflected in Northern Sotho narratives." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17304.

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The aim of the study is to survey the usage of closure as it is reflected in Northern Sotho Narratives. Chapter one This chapter introduces the objectives of the research and definition of the concepts narrative and closure. Reference is made to different scholars to substantiate the argument. Chapter two Plot serves as the basis of the study of closure in a novel. The interconnectedness of the elements of plot expressed by the presence of different closural patterns supports this. Major mutual relationships are distinguished, namely between author and reader as well as between auth
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Books on the topic "Geometrical metaphors"

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Dawson, Ruth. The education of young children in geometrical concepts and visual metaphors. 1990.

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Dawson, Ruth Wilma *. The education of young children in geometrical concepts and visual art: topology and visual metaphors. 1990.

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Darrigol, Olivier. Models, structure, and generality in Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism. Edited by Karine Chemla, Renaud Chorlay, and David Rabouin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777267.013.12.

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This article examines the gradual development of James Clerk Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory, arguing that he aimed at general structures through his models, illustrations, formal analogies, and scientific metaphors. It also considers a few texts in which Maxwell expounds his conception of physical theories and their relation to mathematics. Following a discussion of Maxwell’s extension of an analogy invented by William Thomson in 1842, the article analyzes Maxwell’s geometrical expression of Michael Faraday’s notion of lines of force. It then revisits Maxwell’s honeycomb model that he used t
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Bedock, Camille. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779582.003.0001.

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Based on where a painter places her easel, the same landscape will be represented differently. Some objects will appear distant and blurred, others close up and colourful. The sun will light up the sky in a particular and unique way at any given time, so that the very same object may seem different on another day or from another perspective. For an impressionist painter, reality would be represented as a series of broken brush strokes, whereas a Renaissance Florentine painter would emphasize lines and devote time to the geometric construction of the painting. This can be applied as a metaphor
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Book chapters on the topic "Geometrical metaphors"

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Fisher, Harwood. "Metaphor, Geometric Space, and the Structural View." In Logic, Syntax, and a Structural View. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60881-1_5.

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Hart, Thomas E. "Geometric Metaphor and Proportional Design in Dante’s Commedia." In The Divine Comedy and the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.34.08har.

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De Sapio, Vincent, and Robin De Sapio. "Mechanical Advantage: The Archimedean Tradition of Acquiring Geometric Insight form Mechanical Metaphor." In The Genius of Archimedes -- 23 Centuries of Influence on Mathematics, Science and Engineering. Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9091-1_37.

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Coster, Adelle C. F., and Judith H. Field. "The Shape of Things to Come—Using Geometric and Morphometric Analyses to Identify Archaeological Starch Grains." In Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors. Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7811-8_1.

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"Metaphorical Communication about Nature." In Perceptions of Knowledge Visualization. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4703-9.ch008.

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Metaphors are present in our thoughts and make invisible concepts perceivable. The metaphorical way of perceptual imaging is discussed in this chapter, particularly the use of art and graphic metaphors for concept visualization. We may describe with metaphors the structure and the relations among several kinds of data. Metaphors may represent mathematical equations or geometrical curves and thus make abstract ideas visible. Most metaphors originate from biology-inspired thinking. Nature-derived metaphors support data visualization, information and knowledge visualization, data mining, Semantic Web, swarm computing, cloud computing, and serve as the enrichment of interdisciplinary models. This chapter examines examples of combining metaphorical visualization with artistic principles, and then describes the metaphorical way of learning and teaching with art and graphic metaphors aimed at improving one’s power of conveying meaning, integrating art and science, and visualizing knowledge.
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Blumenberg, Hans. "Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology." In History, Metaphors, Fables. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501732829.003.0008.

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This chapter addresses Hans Blumenberg's introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology (1960). The introduction outlines possible theoretical foundations for a metaphorology — most importantly Kant — while its remaining chapters consist of nine fairly distinct studies of specific metaphorological complexes, such as the “mighty” truth, the difference between organic and mechanical background metaphorics, or the metaphorics of geometric symbolism. Their semantic historical behavior permits or resists their transformation into concepts; hence, Blumenberg proposes them as “paradigms” that might help found a systematic metaphorology. By investigating the nonconceptual, yet-to-be-settled semantic layers of emerging terminologies, Blumenberg's metaphorology is concerned less with the truth of metaphysics than with analyzing philosophy's own unthought and shifting foundations. While he concedes that ornamental metaphors may indeed only provide rhetorical flourishes, Blumenberg draws attention to what he calls “absolute metaphors,” of which “truth as light” would be an example, which cannot simply be converted back into conceptuality.
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"X. Geometric Symbolism and Metaphorics." In Paradigms for a Metaphorology. Cornell University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9780801460043-012.

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Handelman, Matthew. "Geometry: Projection and Space in Siegfried Kracauer’s Aesthetics of Theory." In The Mathematical Imagination. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823283835.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 investigates how geometry revealed to Siegfried Kracauer a style of cultural critique that worked toward a more reasonable society through critique. For Kracauer, geometric metaphors of space and projection fulfilled a seemingly impossible task: in a world vanquished of divine authority, geometry bridged the divide between the raw contingency of materiality and the necessity of mathematical reasoning. Kracauer’s Weimar-era essays, such as “The Mass Ornament” (1927), transformed these metaphors into an aesthetic strategy that, through the space of the text, sought to confront readers with the capitalist misuse of reason and provoke critical self-reflection. For Kracauer, the marginalized figure of the societal observer, the cultural critic, even the Jew took on the role of correcting the historical trajectory of Enlightenment. This vision of critique suggests that critical theorists look to the performativity and positionality of criticism for modes of cultural intervention in our hyper-rationalized and digitized present.
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Conference papers on the topic "Geometrical metaphors"

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Lošonc, Alpar, Andrea Ivanišević, and Ivana Katić. "Economic discourse and visual configuration." In 10th International Symposium on Graphic Engineering and Design. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of technical sciences, Department of graphic engineering and design,, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24867/grid-2020-p53.

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Economic discourse has always used different visual modes of shaping perception. For example, characteristic classical image in economic discourse is the "invisible hand". In doing so, economic discourse reaches for, concerning of its metaphors, for resources in physics, but also in literature. If big part of the visual figures of economic discourse (equilibrium, e.g.) was borrowed from physics in the twentieth century, mathematics is a significant, even dominant source of the formation of visual perception, based on different schemes, graphs and geometric figures. In this paper, we show the c
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Zhang, Weihan, Xiaobo Peng, Ming C. Leu, and Denis Blackmore. "Accuracy and Computational Complexity Analysis of Design Models Created by Virtual Sculpting." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-80506.

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We have developed an experimental virtual sculpting system with haptic interface, which allows the user to create a freeform model interactively. The virtual sculpting method is based on the metaphor of carving a solid block into a 3D freeform object. The PHANToM™ manipulator is used to provide the position and orientation data of the sculpting tool and to generate haptic sensation to the user’s hand during the sculpting process. The goal is to provide a high-fidelity simulation system with real-time performance and adequate accuracy of the generated model. In order to understand the limitatio
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