bisociation

== English == === Etymology === Blend of bi- +‎ association; coined by Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestler in his 1964 book The Act of Creation. === Noun === bisociation (countable and uncountable, plural bisociations) (psychology) A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern. 2010, Marc Segolt, Christian Borgelt, Selecting the Links in BisoNets Generated from Document Collections, Paul R. Cohen, Niall M. Adams, Michael R. Berthold (editors), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis IX: 9th International Symposium, IDA 2010, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 6605, page 197, Several famous scientific discoveries are good examples of bisociations, for instance Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation and James C. Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves. ==== Usage notes ==== As an abstract uncountable noun, used chiefly in the context of Koestler's theory of creativity. The concept was adopted, generalised and formalised by cognitive linguists Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, who developed it into their conceptual blending theory. ==== Translations ==== === See also === perverb === Further reading === bisociation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Conceptual blending on Wikipedia.Wikipedia