Analogy

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Analogy in a more simple understanding is a similar structure to a given structure or the use of a similar example or model to explain something.

To be more precise one can say that it is both the cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process.

[change] See also

• Conceptual metaphor
• Metaphor
• Allegory

[change] Other websites and references

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analogy

• Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Analogy in Early Greek Thought.
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Analogy in Patristic and Medieval Thought.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Medieval Theories of Analogy.
• Dedre Gentner's publications page, most of them on analogy and available for download.
• Shawn Glynn’s publications page, all on teaching with analogies and some available for download.
• Keith Holyoak's publications page, many on analogy and available for download.
• Chalmers, D.J. et al. (1991). Chalmers, D.J., French, R.M., Hofstadter, D., High-Level Perception, Representation, and Analogy.
• Forbus, K. et al. (1998). Analogy just looks like high-level perception.
• Gentner, D., Holyoak, K.J., Kokinov, B. (Eds.) (2001). The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-57139-0
• Itkonen, E. (2005). Analogy as Structure and Process. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• Juthe, A. (2005). "Argument by Analogy", in Argumentation (2005) 19: 1–27.
• Holland, J.H., Holyoak, K.J., Nisbett, R.E., and Thagard, P. (1986). Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-58096-9.
• Holyoak, K.J., and Thagard, P. (1995). Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-58144-2.
• Holyoak, K.J., and Thagard, P. (1997). The Analogical Mind.
• Hummel, J.E., and Holyoak, K.J. (2005). Relational Reasoning in a Neurally Plausible Cognitive Architecture
• Lamond, G. (2006). Precedent and Analogy in Legal Reasoning, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Turney, P.D., and Littman, M.L. (2005). Corpus-based learning of analogies and semantic relations. Machine Learning, 60 (1-3), 251-278.

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