Science and Poetry

Abstract

Emotionality and rationality or differences and consensus regarding the basic units of the semantic plan of art and science. Relationship of the language and extra-linguistic area in scientific knowledge and poetry. Particularities of the poetic language and the language of science. Image and abstraction: a different ability of our spirit to reflect the world. The presence of metaphors in philosophy and natural sciences as a transcendence of common experience. Interactive understanding of metaphor and its pitfalls. Is metaphor usable in science and does it have a cognitive function?

Keywords

• poetry
• science
• language
• metaphor