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Form Composition: The Generative Structural Engine of Metaphors in Human Cognition

2025-06-30

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<p>This paper explores the origins of non-literal meaning in human cognition and proposes a generative structural engine based on each concept’s central form—a reductive, domain-general format embedded within every concept we learn, which encodes a small subset of each concept’s information with a default sense of certainty. Recent work has demonstrated that people rely on form composition when generating and inte...

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Literature Corpus work: 37cd3e37-2423-51ce-93b0-1a6cc4b3e5ac
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/bqkzr_v1

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