Metaphor and knowledge : the challenges of writing science /
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Author / Creator: | Baake, Ken. |
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Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communication SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communication. |
Subject: | Technical writing. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical Writing. Technical writing. Electronic books. Electronic books. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129575 |
Summary: | Analyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts. Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisciplinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows the difficulty of writing science when word meanings are unsettled, and he analyzes the power of metaphor in science. He argues that metaphors function as musical notes, which sound "harmonics" in the process of transferring ideas from one term to another. These harmonics force scientists to confront implications, even paradoxes, of a theory. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index. |
ISBN: | 1417531347 9781417531349 0791457435 9780791457436 0791457443 9780791457443 9780791486740 0791486745 |