Visualizing Thought: Topics in Cognitive Science(2010)
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...As a third example, we look at the following representation from [23] (Fig....
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...The use of a decomposition in Euler diagram generation is not new [21,23], but the order of curve label removal can have a profound impact on the effectiveness of the final diagram, as can the method used to draw the curves....
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...On the contrary, it is a common thesis among historians and philosophers that the objects of Euclidean geometry are quasi-empirical [12, 16, 17, 19, 30] and that not all abstract objects and universals lack sensible features akin to those of everyday concrete objects [11, 13, 15, 23, 33, 34, 37, 38]....
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...Russell’s distinction between Relation Symbols and Object Symbols [23] identifies “words which mean relations are not themselves relations, but just as substantial or insubstantial as other words....
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..., [22,23]) could be adapted to support the unique needs of scientists as designers....
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...Many of these metaphorically spatial concepts are evident in spatial language: Someone is at the top of the class, another has fallen into a depression, friends grow close or apart; a field is wide open, a topic is central to a debate (e.g., Lakoff & Johnson, 1980)....
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...…is evident in a broad range of gestures and linguistic expressions across cultures and has a basis in the nature of the world and the things in it, including ourselves (e.g., Clark, 1973; Cooper & Ross, 1975; Franklin & Tversky, 1990; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Talmy, 1983, 2000; Tversky, 2001)....
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...…some more literal, some more metaphorical, so that they have parallels in other ways of using space as well, in words, in actions, and in gesture, in the virtual space created by gesture and the mental space created by words (e.g., Gattis, 2004; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Tversky et al., 2009)....
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...…them, and to ripple across domains (e.g., Arnheim, 1974; Bertin, 1981; Card, Mackinlay, & Shneiderman, 1999; Elkin, 1999; Gombrich, 1961; Goodman, 1978; Kulvicki, 2006; McCloud, 1994; Murch, 2001; Small, 1997; Stafford, 2007; Wainer, 1992; Ware, 2008; Winn, 1987; Tufte, 1983, 1990, 1997)....
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...Designers use their sketches in a kind of conversation: They sketch, reexamine the sketch, and revise (Schon, 1983)....
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...Sketches in early phases of design even of physical objects, like products and buildings, are frequently just glyphs, lines and blobs, with no specific shapes, sizes, or distances (e.g., Goel, 1995; Schon, 1983)....
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...In addition, redundancy often helps (e.g., Ainsworth, 2008a,b; Mayer, 2001)....
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