irreversability

What is perhaps the most ominous of the findings is the apparent irreversability of the impairment produced in episodic memory personal memories of events and instances, and possibly also attention.

Mind Hacks: Through the k-hole 2005

Once we've shown that a comparison theory can account for the irreversability of metaphor, we no longer need to posit a categorization phase in metaphor comprehension.

Metaphor IV: The Reckoning Chris 2004

The categorization aspect of the theory mainly serves the purpose of creating the irreversability of the metaphor.

Metaphor III: Metaphor Is Categorization Chris 2004

The purpose of this process seems to be to explain the irreversability of metaphorical statements.

Archive 2004-11-01 Chris 2004

This irreversability is not captured by comparison theories of metaphor, according to Glucksberg, and the failure to do so demands a new approach to metaphor.

Metaphor III: Metaphor Is Categorization Chris 2004

The purpose of this process seems to be to explain the irreversability of metaphorical statements.

Metaphor IV: The Reckoning Chris 2004

The question we have to ask, then, is can structure mapping, the most prominent comparison theory, account for the irreversability?

Metaphor IV: The Reckoning Chris 2004

To answer it, we first have to determine when the irreversability arises.

Metaphor IV: The Reckoning Chris 2004

Since the categorization theory now involves comparison, and since the categorization aspect itself is unintuitive, if we can come up with a comparison theory of metaphor that can explain this irreversability, then we can do away with the categorization theory altogether.

Metaphor IV: The Reckoning Chris 2004

This would in turn be evidence that the structure mapping theory can account for the irreversability of metaphors, thus rendering superflous the categorization phase in the attributive categorization theory.

Metaphor IV: The Reckoning Chris 2004