Analogical reasoning : perspectives of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and philosophy
HELMAN Case Western Reserve University vii PART I CONCEPTUAL AND CATEGORICAL THEORIES OF ANALOGICAL UNDERSTANDING MARK TURNER CATEGORIES AND ANALOGIES I want to pursue the following claims: The way we categorize helps explain the way we recognize a statement as an analogy.
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I / Conceptual and Categorical Theories of Analogical Understanding.- Categories and Analogies.- Some Constraints on Embodied Analogical Understanding.- Metaphorical Style as Message.- II / Computational and Cognitive Theories of Analogical Reasoning.- Analogy — From a Unified Perspective.- Dimensions of Analogy.- Analogical Transfer: Processes and Individual Differences.- Abstraction-Based Analogical Inference.- Viewing Metaphor as Analogy.- Combining Analogies in Mental Models.- Arguing by Analogy in Law: A Case-Based Model.- III / Logical and Probabilistic Theories of Analogical Reasoning.- Determination, Uniformity, and Relevance: Normative Criteria for Generalization and Reasoning by Analogy.- Analogy by Similarity.- Analogy and Similarity in Scientific Reasoning.- Inductive Analogy by Similarity and Proximity.- IV / Analogy and Information Processing: Perspectives of the Philosophy of Science.- Theories, Family Resemblances and Analogy.- Hypothesis Formation Using Part-Whole Interrelations.- Analogical Information Processing within Scientific Metaphors.- Analogies Hard and Soft.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.