Analogy

In George Graham & William Bechtel (eds.), A Companion to Cognitive Science. Blackwell. pp. 107–113 (1998)
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Analogies are partial similarities between different situations that support further inferences. Specifically, analogy is a kind of similarity in which the same system of relations holds across different objects. Analogies thus capture parallels across different situations.

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9781405164535   9780631218517

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10.1002/9781405164535.ch1

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