“They attest not only to certain conceptual origins but to a certain mode of thinking: analogical thinking. This chapter has in fact shown the latter to be the fundamental modus operandi of early Homo faber. It has shown how thinking is modeled on the body, how the body functions as a semantic template in the development of fundamental new practices, how, in effect, analogical thinking is rooted in the body. Some final words may be said about the nature of this mode of thinking.
In analogical thinking, there is a transfer of meaning from one framework to another, or at the simplest level, from one thing to another. Two otherwise unrelated items or phenomena are perceptually conjoined-thus”