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Metaphors of Creativity

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What is creativity? This question is far more likely to elicit an anecdote, an aphorism or a metaphor than it is a literal definition. Creativity is an elusive phenomenon to study, made all the more vexing by our fundamental inability to pin it down in formal terms.

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Veale, T. (2018). Metaphors of Creativity. In: Stojanov, G., Kulakov, A. (eds) ICT Innovations 2016. ICT Innovations 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 665. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68855-8_3

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