Associating certain forms and designs in Islamic Arts with the promised Heaven may be widely observed in the works of many historians and critics of the field. It is believed that Islamic Art has been derived from the imagination of the Paradise as depicted in Holy Quran. To express this meaning in technical words it should be said that the main concept in Islamic Arts has been the gardens of h...

The relationship between metaphor and the practice of utilization in therapy and hypnosis can be seen as dependent on metaphor's role in structuring experience. The work of Gregory Bateson and others is used to illustrate how metaphor functions. Bateson's comparison of two forms of syllogistic logic provides a background for distinguishing between the experiential effects of metaphor in contras...

Abstract In this paper, we combine methodological tools of cognitive linguistics and translation studies to establish correlations between procedures applied render English fiction similes into Ukrainian, the (sub)cultural specificity conceptual mappings that license linguistic expression prompt translators’ decisions in favour foreignization or domestication. We revealed five (retention, repla...

the immortality of the rational soul is one of the most important issues of ibn sina’s philosophy and anthropology. he poses many arguments in proving this subject. ibn sina proves the immortality of rational soul by not having relation or position of the intelligible concepts, indefinite power of the rational soul in his actions as well as its needlessness to sensible faculties in some of its ...

In this paper I put forward a concept of the imagination which weaves together many of the key and overlapping dichotomies around which discussions of the imagination have circled: dichotomies between the productive and reproductive, between presence and absence, between creativity or spontaneity and receptivity or passivity, between invention and disclosure, between cognition and affect. Inter...