Coherent Deformation in Scientific and Technical Writing

<jats:p> The fact that some ideas seem to be inexpressible directly in language and that the induction-hypothesis sequence in scientific thinking does not completely account for new ideas may be due to the peculiar abilities of the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Study of the mind and philosophers of perception suggest that perception and imagination or fact and intuition are combined in language, which then takes on new meaning through “coherent deformation” and leads to new thinking. This new thinking then can best be replicated in the reader through nondirect means such as metaphors and visual materials. </jats:p>