Original scientific paper
Place and Role of Metaphors and Analogies in the Complex Thought and Conceptual Thought
Zoran Primorac
Andrej Ule
Abstract
The paper is on the role of complex thought in the development of
thought and scientific knowledge. According to Vigotsky, the complex thought is the first phase in the ontogenesis and phylogenesis of human thought. It is in this sense pre-conceptual. Also, according to Vigotsky, the complex thought has its internal genesis which begins with associative complexes and ends in pseudo-concepts. Complex also an explanatory role in scientific thought. Complex thought ppears on all levels and stages of the development of scientific knowledge. Metaphors may appear in the complex thought as a dominant mode of thought or in the conceptual structure as the auxiliary in the explanation. Analogies present a certain structuration of the complex thought, which contributes to the creation of conceptual structure. The place of analogy is thus between a complex thought and conceptual thought.
Keywords
Complex thought; conceptual thought; metaphor; analogy; model; scientific knowledge
Hrčak ID:
4020
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2006.
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