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Myth Metaphor And Science

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Author : Alan Wall
language : en
Publisher: University of Chester
Release Date : 2009-04-01

Myth Metaphor And Science written by Alan Wall and has been published by University of Chester this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This book explores the way in which language is used in fiction, poetry and science. It examines the role of metaphor in structuring our thought, and questions any simplistic notion of creativity. There is an enquiry into the significance of myth for the modern writer. Why do our earliest narratives return to haunt us at the end of history? The final essays ask what it means to attempt scientific descriptions of reality in words. Can language here ever be anything more than a clumsy approximation of mathematics. The book ends with a paper written jointly by the particle physicist Goronwy Tudor Jones and Alan Wall, exploring the meaning of complementarity in modern physics, by describing in detail the double-slit experiment.

Metaphor And Myth In Science And Religion

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Author : Earl R. Mac Cormac
language : en
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Release Date : 1976

Metaphor And Myth In Science And Religion written by Earl R. Mac Cormac and has been published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Philosophy categories.

Most of the effort in this work is fully devoted to establishing the thesis that science and religion use language in a similar manner; both employ metaphors to suggest new hypotheses, both seem to confirm their hypotheses in human experience, and both often create myths by forgetting the hypothetical character of their metaphors.

Metaphor And Myth In Science And Religion

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Author : Earl R. Mac Cormac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

Metaphor And Myth In Science And Religion written by Earl R. Mac Cormac and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Language and languages categories.

The Myth Of Metaphor

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Author : Colin Murray Turbayne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962

The Myth Of Metaphor written by Colin Murray Turbayne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Metaphor categories.

Myths Metaphors And Science Fiction

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Author : Sheila Finch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-04-01

Myths Metaphors And Science Fiction written by Sheila Finch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Myth in literature categories.

"This welcome discussion of the connections between future fiction and stories about human inception emphasizes how mythic roots contribute to the emotional power of narrative. Finch investigates the inexplicable awe and wonder that emanates from close encounters between myth and science fiction. This juxtaposition emphatically indicates that science fiction is the predominant mythic metaphor of our time."--Marleen S. Barr

Myth Metaphor And Science

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Author : Alan Wall
language : en
Publisher: University of Chester
Release Date : 2009

Myth Metaphor And Science written by Alan Wall and has been published by University of Chester this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) categories.

Time S Arrow Time S Cycle

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Author : Stephen Jay Gould
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1988-01-01

Time S Arrow Time S Cycle written by Stephen Jay Gould and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Science categories.

Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould’s command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense following for the seeming arcana of this field. In Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle his subject is nothing less than geology’s signal contribution to human thought—the discovery of “deep time,” the vastness of earth’s history, a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor. He follows a single thread through three documents that mark the transition in our thinking from thousands to billions of years: Thomas Burnet’s four-volume Sacred Theory of the Earth (1680–1690), James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth (1795), and Charles Lyell’s three-volume Principles of Geology (1830–1833). Gould’s major theme is the role of metaphor in the formulation and testing of scientific theories—in this case the insight provided by the oldest traditional dichotomy of Judeo-Christian thought: the directionality of time’s arrow or the immanence of time’s cycle. Gould follows these metaphors through these three great documents and shows how their influence, more than the empirical observation of rocks in the field, provoked the supposed discovery of deep time by Hutton and Lyell. Gould breaks through the traditional “cardboard” history of geological textbooks (the progressive march to truth inspired by more and better observations) by showing that Burnet, the villain of conventional accounts, was a rationalist (not a theologically driven miracle-monger) whose rich reconstruction of earth history emphasized the need for both time’s arrow (narrative history) and time’s cycle (immanent laws), while Hutton and Lyell, our traditional heroes, denied the richness of history by their exclusive focus upon time’s arrow.

Science And Myth

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Author : Gianfranco Spavieri
language : en
Publisher: Conscious Pub
Release Date : 2000-10

Science And Myth written by Gianfranco Spavieri and has been published by Conscious Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10 with Myth categories.

The Mythology Of Science And Evolution Of Its Metaphor

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Author : Roger Smeeth
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-09-14

The Mythology Of Science And Evolution Of Its Metaphor written by Roger Smeeth and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-14 with categories.

So what did I learn thru the process of recording these ideas? - the next time I have the desire to designate a truth, I would really looking at a metaphor, a translation of a belief system, a closed system with limits. Also I would bear in mind that even if Science says it's so, doesn't make it my truth - unless that is also my choice - and yours is yours.

Science Without Myth

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Author : Sergio Sismondo
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01

Science Without Myth written by Sergio Sismondo and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Science categories.

This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.

Myth Metaphor And Science

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