Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Bisociative

Persian (Farsi) translation:

دوتداعی، دوآیند

Added to glossary by Ehsan Alipour
Oct 23, 2012 04:42
11 yrs ago
English term

Bisociative

English to Persian (Farsi) Social Sciences Other
Arthur Koestler uses the term bisociative to describe a form of thinking where two radically dissimilar ideas are linked together in a sudden act of intuition that is famously mythologized in science as Newton connecting a falling apple to the laws of the universe
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Oct 31, 2012 16:17: Ehsan Alipour Created KOG entry

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دوتداعی

Just a coinage!
Coined by Arthur Koestler in the book The Act of Creation; "Bisociative thinking" means to combine both rational and irrational sources during the creative process.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_bisociative_thinking#ixzz2...

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Note added at 6 hrs (2012-10-23 10:47:00 GMT)
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Could also be: دوآیند. I like this more.
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agree Zeynab Tajik : I opt for دوآیند
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پیوند شهودی دو ایده

the prefix bi connotes the two and based on the definition provided, I suggest the equivalent
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ترکیب/تداعی همزمان دو ایده ی نامرتبط

Bisociation:
the simultaneous mental association of an idea or object with two fields ordinarily not regarded as related <the pun is perhaps the simplest form of bisociation>

Origin of BISOCIATION:
bi- + association
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bisociation

As we have "associative thinking" i.e "تفکر تداعی گرا" I suggest "ترکیب همزمان دو ایده ی نامرتبط "

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