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Conceptual connections that look inevitable in retrospect often come from industrious and dynamic creative work below the horizon of observation. I introduce the theory of conceptual integration and discuss constraints that shape and guide the construction of meaningful connections.
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Turner, M. (1999). Forging Connections. In: Nehaniv, C.L. (eds) Computation for Metaphors, Analogy, and Agents. CMAA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1562. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48834-0_2
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