Quote by David DiSalvo

“Preestablished schemata guide our attention to evaluate new information, but they can also guide our attention to selectively ignore information inconsistent with the schemata.”

— David DiSalvo

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

— George Lakoff

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and…

— Daniel Kahneman

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but…

— Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus…

— George Lakoff

“... we can define concept as a logical, mental construction of one or more relationships. [...] It is purely mental, is logical, and can…

— Don E. Ethridge

“Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category.”

— Jeff Vandermeer

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in…

— David Hilbert

“A thing not structured and organized contains more information, because it is more difficult to describe”

— Tor Norretranders