FROM Hofstadter & Mitchell in Holyoak/Barnden book. =================================================== In subsection ``Paradigm shifts ina microworld'' in section 5 (p. 30 of MS): "The answer xyy allows that the two strings are to be perceived in opposite alphabetic directions ... but REFUSES TO GIVE UP THE IDEA that the strings have the same spatial direction; ...." Probably metonymy: THINK-PRODUCT-FOR-THINKER?? From wjin@NMSU.Edu Tue May 26 17:11:36 1992 ------ is it possible to be a metaphor where the ANSWER is a holder of some ideas. If it is in Chinese, the metonymy reading would sound unreasonable. -jin