?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Coherent+and+Creative+Conceptual+Combinations.&rft.creator=Thagard%2C+Paul.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=Conceptual+combinations+range+from+the+utterly+mundane+to+the+sublimely+creative.+Mundane+combinations+include+a+myriad+of+adjective-noun+and+noun-noun+juxtapositions+that+crop+up+in+everyday+speaking+and+writing%2C+such+as+blue+car%2C+cooked+carrots%2C+and+radio+phone.+Creative+combinations+include+some+of+the+most+important+theoretical+constructions+in+science%2C+such+as+sound+wave%2C+bacterial+infection%2C+and+natural+selection.+Both+mundane+and+creative+conceptual+combinations+are+essential+to+our+attempts+to+make+sense+of+the+world+and+people's+utterances+about+it.+This+paper+will+show+how+the+various+aspects+of+conceptual+combination+discussed+by+Hampton+(this+volume)%2C+Shoben+and+Gagn%C3%A9+(this+volume)+and+Wisniewski+(this+volume)+can+be+unified+by+seeing+them+as+parts+of+a+general+coherence+mechanism+that+people+use+to+make+sense+of+what+they+see+and+hear.&rft.publisher=Washington%2C+D.+C.++American+Psychological+Association&rft.contributor=Ward%2C+T.+B.&rft.contributor=Smith%2C+S.+M.&rft.contributor=Viad%2C+J.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F667%2F1%2FCCCC.html&rft.identifier=++Thagard%2C+Paul.++(1997)+Coherent+and+Creative+Conceptual+Combinations.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F667%2F