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10.1111/j.1467-9744.1991.tb00823.x

ON THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISCOVERY

Shames

Morris L.

02 09 1991

26 3

10.1111/zygo.1991.26.issue-3

343 357

Abstract. Despite the by now historical tendency to demarcate scientific epistemology sharply from virtually all others, especially theological “epistemology,” it has recently been recognized that both enterprises share a great deal in common, at least as far as the epistemology of discovery is implicated. Such a claim is founded upon a psychological analysis of figuration, where, it is argued, metaphor plays a crucial role in the mediation of discovery, in the domains of science and religion alike. Thus, although the conventionally conceived scientific method is crucial to the enterprise, primacy must nonetheless be accorded to discovery, which drives virtually all disciplines.

cognition discovery epistemology figuration metaphor scientific method

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