Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Summary and Overview -- i. Argument summary -- ii. Argument overview -- Part A. Theoretical Prerequisites -- Chapter 1. Formal solutions of identity: the substantive identity -- 1.1 Chapter overview -- 1.2 Linguistics in the age of science -- 1.3 Formal identity: objects of mathematics -- 1.4 Network identity: objects of human conceptualisation -- 1.5 Identity as a human-scale concept -- 1.6 Chapter summary -- Chapter 2. Non-formal solutions of identity: identity as process -- 2.1 Chapter overview -- 2.2 The nominalist tradition: contingent existence -- 2.3 Ontological contingency as a feature of counterfactual thought -- 2.4 Plato's idea: entity or process? -- 2.5 Identity as item in inventory and blended concept -- 2.6 Chapter summary -- Chapter 3. Identity and the present. Towards a cognitive model of the present -- 3.1 Chapter overview -- 3.2 Aristotle: reason, induction and deduction -- 3.3 Plotinus and Saint Augustine: knowledge and morality -- 3.4 "Vox" and "eidos": time-point matrix and duration-matrix -- 3.5 Chapter summary -- Part B. Descriptive Applications -- Chapter 4. 'Innovation' and 'creation' within the Cognitive Model of the Present -- 4.1 Chapter overview -- 4.2 The Cognitive Model of the Present by Vyvyan Evans -- 4.3 Introducing the corpus study of 'innovation' and 'creation' -- 4.4 Survey of British National Corpus 2007 -- 4.4.1 Processes and things -- 4.4.2 Verb forms -- 4.4.3 Nominal forms -- Statement (1) -- 4.4.4 Nominals and verbs: distributive proportion -- Statement (2) -- Statement (3) -- 4.5 Dictionary entries of 'create' and 'innovate' word families -- Statement (4) -- Statement (5) -- 4.6 Two working hypotheses -- 4.7 Analysis of 'innovation' and 'creation' as concepts -- 4.7.1 Causality and temporality: BNC samples.

4.7.2 Speculating about the limit options in the conceptualisation process -- 4.8 Verifying the configurationality hypothesis -- 4.8.1 Configurationality and counterfactuality -- 4.8.2 Conceptual blending account of 'innovation' and 'creation' concepts -- 4.9 Chapter Summary -- Chapter 5. 'Innovation' and 'creation' as principles in institutional management and aesthetics -- 5.1 Chapter overview -- 5.2 Towards a synthesis: summary of corpus findings -- 5.3 Example 1. Conceptualisation as an aspect of institutional management in the policy-making process -- 5.4 Example 2. Conceptualisation as an aesthetic aspect of literary texts -- 5.5 Example 3. Conceptualisation as an aesthetic aspect of literary texts (continued) -- 5.6 Example 4. Conceptualisations as an aesthetic aspect of sacred art -- 5.7 Chapter summary -- Chapter 6. Cognitive models of 'innovation' and 'creation,' human thought and perceptual modality -- 6.1 Chapter overview -- 6.2 Determinist results: open-ended and closed reason -- 6.3 Perceptual modality -- 6.4 Chapter summary -- General Conclusion -- Part C. References -- References -- Primary Sources -- Pre-modern -- Modern -- The Bible -- Secondary Sources -- List of Figures.