"bisociation" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "In Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, images of confinement merge with family images. One of the most memorable of these bisociations is that involving the mother's \"imprisonment\" of the first-person narrator's hair in braids.",
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          "text": "Bisociation is the contact of two operative fields.[…]The junctional concept which connects the ideas of two operative fields, is the bisociative concept, and the combination of two mental associations which are logically unrelated in bisociation.",
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          "text": "2010, Marc Segolt, Christian Borgelt, Selecting the Links in BisoNets Generated from Document Collections, Paul R. Cohen, Niall M. Adams, Michael R. Berthold (editors), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis IX: 9th International Symposium, IDA 2010, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 6605, page 197,\nSeveral famous scientific discoveries are good examples of bisociations, for instance Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation and James C. Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves."
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          "text": "In 1964, Arthur Koestler proposed a theory of general creativity wherein he outlined the process of bisociation and explained its importance with respect to originality. The phenomenon of bisociation involves the intermingling or bringing together of two or more unconnected matrices of thought.",
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        "(psychology) A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern."
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