{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2126412902","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002295","title":"The Meaning and Value of Invention","display_name":"The Meaning and Value of Invention","publication_year":1996,"publication_date":"1996-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2126412902","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002295","mag":"2126412902"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0269889700002295","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002295","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002295","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S7273216","display_name":"Science in Context","issn_l":"0269-8897","issn":["0269-8897","1474-0664"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","erih-plus","jufo-2","medline","norway-2","poland-70","russia-white-list-2","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Science in Context","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5066796618","display_name":"Fran\u00e7ois Gu\u00e9ry","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I203339264","display_name":"Universit\u00e9 de Lyon","ror":"https://ror.org/01rk35k63","country_code":"FR","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I203339264"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Fran\u00e7ois Gu\u00e9ry","raw_affiliation_strings":["Faculty of Philosophy University of Lyon"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculty of Philosophy University of Lyon","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I203339264"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5066796618"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I203339264"],"apc_list":{"value":3550,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3550},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":2.9905,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":1,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.93159352,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"9","issue":"1","first_page":"17","last_page":"38"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14198","display_name":"Philosophical Thought and Analysis","score":0.2563000023365021,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14198","display_name":"Philosophical Thought and Analysis","score":0.2563000023365021,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13545","display_name":"Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis","score":0.11140000075101852,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13931","display_name":"Philosophy and Historical Thought","score":0.10270000249147415,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/inventions","display_name":"inventions","score":0.9290000200271606},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/innovation","display_name":"innovation","score":0.9190000295639038},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/art-of-memory","display_name":"art of memory","score":0.8519999980926514},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/rhetoric","display_name":"rhetoric","score":0.7860000133514404},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/symbolic","display_name":"symbolic","score":0.800000011920929},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/fecundation","display_name":"fecundation","score":0.7850000262260437},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/maturation","display_name":"maturation","score":0.9639999866485596},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/materialism","display_name":"materialism","score":0.7519999742507935},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/francois-dagognet","display_name":"Fran\u00e7ois Dagognet","score":0.7979999780654907},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/intellectual-history","display_name":"intellectual history","score":0.6489999890327454},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mandeville","display_name":"Mandeville","score":0.5730000138282776},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/adam-smith","display_name":"Adam Smith","score":0.9710000157356262},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel","display_name":"Hegel","score":0.9909999966621399},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/buffon","display_name":"Buffon","score":0.9129999876022339},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/jean-jacques-rousseau","display_name":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","score":0.9980000257492065},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/johann-gottfried-herder","display_name":"Johann Gottfried Herder","score":0.996999979019165}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780876879","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3054749","display_name":"Meaning (existential)","level":2,"score":0.6761435270309448},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.6422346234321594},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776291640","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2912517","display_name":"Value (mathematics)","level":2,"score":0.5794485211372375},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C521332185","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185816","display_name":"Analogy","level":2,"score":0.5789250731468201},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144218379","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7081","display_name":"Materialism","level":2,"score":0.5694727301597595},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.5627336502075195},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C182306322","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1779371","display_name":"Order (exchange)","level":2,"score":0.5506828427314758},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C98184364","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1780131","display_name":"Argument (complex analysis)","level":2,"score":0.5299146175384521},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781238097","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175026","display_name":"Object (grammar)","level":2,"score":0.49751928448677063},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C1370556","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81009","display_name":"Rhetoric","level":2,"score":0.4557061791419983},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C32506930","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906313","display_name":"Hegelianism","level":2,"score":0.4412097632884979},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124952713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8242","display_name":"Literature","level":1,"score":0.34100601077079773},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.1612701714038849},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.1610981822013855},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.15963467955589294},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.07654419541358948},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C55493867","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7094","display_name":"Biochemistry","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C10138342","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43015","display_name":"Finance","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C105795698","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12483","display_name":"Statistics","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0269889700002295","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002295","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002295","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S7273216","display_name":"Science in Context","issn_l":"0269-8897","issn":["0269-8897","1474-0664"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","erih-plus","jufo-2","medline","norway-2","poland-70","russia-white-list-2","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Science in Context","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":15,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W196141376","https://openalex.org/W568362929","https://openalex.org/W604107570","https://openalex.org/W639811986","https://openalex.org/W651767966","https://openalex.org/W1537772531","https://openalex.org/W1547000295","https://openalex.org/W2100210120","https://openalex.org/W2125663460","https://openalex.org/W2316385009","https://openalex.org/W2618565671","https://openalex.org/W3169707128","https://openalex.org/W4231759453","https://openalex.org/W4232298352","https://openalex.org/W4248943488"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2947931177","https://openalex.org/W2003593817","https://openalex.org/W1570175149","https://openalex.org/W3203316245","https://openalex.org/W2985792858","https://openalex.org/W328527941","https://openalex.org/W2189356202","https://openalex.org/W7098483800","https://openalex.org/W2065827018","https://openalex.org/W7099231990"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"The":[0,2,45,94],"Argument":[1],"secret":[3],"of":[4,9,16,26,47,54,127,135,157],"invention":[5,57],"or":[6,18],"the":[7,14,24,27,36,52,80,107,125,133,136,142,173],"art":[8,46,102],"inventing":[10,98],"has":[11],"recently":[12],"become":[13],"object":[15],"positive":[17],"experimental":[19],"research,":[20],"aimed":[21],"at":[22],"discovering":[23],"logic":[25],"initial":[28],"mental":[29],"processes":[30],"that":[31,62,97,104],"lead":[32],"to":[33,43,109,145,171,176],"\u201cinnovation.\u201d":[34],"But":[35],"problem":[37],"is":[38,76],"old":[39],"and":[40,84,90,103,131,154,169],"goes":[41],"back":[42],"antiquity:":[44],"memory,":[48],"rhetoric,":[49],"symbolics.":[50],"Does":[51],"succession":[53],"thought":[55,96],"in":[56,115],"follow":[58],"a":[59,72,88,91,100,146],"rule,":[60],"such":[61],"its":[63,113],"variations":[64],"could":[65],"be":[66],"classified?":[67],"Here":[68],"I":[69],"offer":[70],"but":[71,150],"general":[73],"direction:":[74],"There":[75],"an":[77],"analogy":[78],"between":[79],"two":[81],"relations:":[82],"invention/innovation":[83],"fecundation/maturation":[85],"\u2013":[86],"namely,":[87],"male":[89],"female":[92],"principle.":[93],"Ancients":[95],"was":[99],"divine":[101],"man":[105],"receives":[106],"spark":[108],"then":[110],"brood":[111],"over":[112],"fruit":[114],"his":[116],"mind.":[117],"Today's":[118],"still":[119],"dominant":[120],"materialist":[121],"tendency":[122],"insists":[123],"on":[124],"importance":[126],"this":[128],"secondary":[129],"maturation":[130],"minimizes":[132],"role":[134],"primordial":[137],"spark.":[138],"Thus":[139],"becomes":[140],"possible":[141],"ranking":[143],"according":[144],"unique":[147],"order":[148],"\u2014":[149,156],"not":[151],"without":[152],"hesitations":[153],"guilt":[155],"thinkers":[158],"as":[159,162],"far":[160],"apart":[161],"Mandeville,":[163],"Adam":[164],"Smith,":[165],"Hegel,":[166],"Buffon,":[167],"Rousseau,":[168],"Herder,":[170],"find":[172],"contemporary":[174],"trend":[175],"which":[177],"Fran\u00e7ois":[178],"Dagognet":[179],"belongs.":[180]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-10-30T12:39:25.321706","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}