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oaioai:discovery.dundee.ac.uk:publications/e1e3f3f9-6a88-4a0d-b44d-490f0f96864e

A formal cognitive model of mathematical metaphors

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1 January 2009
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Springer
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    Abstract

    Starting from the observation by Lakoff and Núñez (2000) that the process for mathematical discoveries is essentially one of creating metaphors, we show how Information Flow theory (Barwise & Seligman, 1997) can be used to formalise the basic metaphors for arithmetic that ground the basic concepts in the human embodied nature

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