Earl R Maccormac

Biographic Data

ID347378
NAMEEarl R Maccormac
GIVEN NAMESEarl R
FAMILY NAMEMaccormac
SIGNATUREMACCORMAC E R
AFFILIATIONSDavidson College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
H-INDEX1

  • A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor

    George Lakoff, Earl R MaccormacARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1987Cited by: 1

  • A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor

    Peter Lloyd Jones, Earl R MaccormacARTICLELeonardo1987

  • Creative Metaphors

    Earl R MaccormacARTICLEMetaphor and Symbolic Activity1986

    A rational reconstruction of semantics and memory for creative metaphors requires flexibility in a semantic hierarchy and multiple activation of nodes in semantic memory. Semantic features expressed in fuzzy sets allow for changes in meaning, while memory viewed as both a fuzzy set-theoretic and a network allows semantic flexibility to be reconstructed in memory. Although the creative process remains largely hidden, motivation can be found in emo…

  • Men and machines

    Open AccessEarl R MaccormacARTICLETechnology in Society1984References: 1

  • Grammatical and literary structures

    Open AccessFrank W Bliss, Earl R MaccormacARTICLEHuman Studies1979References: 4

  • Metaphor and Myth in Science and Religion

    Stephanie Ross, Earl R MaccormacARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1978

  • Myths, Models and Paradigms: A Comparative Study in Science and Religion

    Robert G Jones, Ian G Barbour et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1978

  • Metaphor and Myth in Science and Religion

    Robert A Oakes, Earl R MaccormacARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1977Cited by: 1

  • Scientific and Religious Metaphors

    Open AccessEarl R MaccormacARTICLEReligious Studies1975

    For quite some time, critics have attacked religious language on the grounds that theologians employed metaphors that were irreducible. By irreducible, they meant metaphors that could not be paraphrased in literal language. And any such language that could not be reduced to words that can be taken in a literal sense, would be devoid of cognitive meaning or truth value. Since theologians claimed that statements like ‘God is love’ cannot be reduced…

  • The Language Machine and Metaphor

    Open AccessEarl R MaccormacARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences1972Cited by: 1

  • Meaning Variance and Metaphor 1

    Earl R MaccormacARTICLEThe British Journal for the…1971Cited by: 1References: 3

  • A New Programme for Religious Language: The Transformational Generative Grammar

    Open AccessEarl R MaccormacARTICLEReligious Studies1970

    Recent defenders of the cognitive significance of religious language have had to face opponents from two directions; from those who demand that religious language be capable of some form of empirical verification (or falsification) and from those who demand that for religious language to be meaningful it must be capable of being understood in ordinary language. Apologists who have taken the first challenge seriously have strained to show that rel…

  • Books Reviewed

    Earl R MaccormacARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1963

    Journal Article Books Reviewed Get access As Christians Face Rival Religions: An Interreligious Strategy for Community Without Compromise. By GERALD COOKE. New York: Association Press, 1962. 190 pages. $3.75. EARL R. MACCORMAC EARL R. MACCORMAC Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, April 1963, Pages 163–164, https://doi.org/10.10…

  • Missions and the Presbyterian Schism of 1837

    Open AccessEarl R MaccormacARTICLEChurch History1963References: 1

    Professor Kenneth Scott Latourette has long maintained that church historians must take into account the role that missions have played in ecclesiastical history. His point is especially well taken in considering the Presbyterian Schism of 1837

  • Historical Studies

    Earl R MaccormacARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1962

    Journal Article HISTORICAL STUDIES Get access Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought. By GEORGE H. WILLIAMS. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962. x + 231 pages. $4.50. EARL R. MACCORMAC EARL R. MACCORMAC Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXX, Issue 4, October 1962, Pages 332–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXX.4.332 Published: 01 Oc…