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CROSS-MAPPED ANALOGIES : PITTING SYSTEMATICITY AGAINST SPURIOUS SIMILARITY
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An analogy can be viewed as a device for conveying that two domains share significant relational structure even though they may not share surface similarity . The value of an analogy lies in its ability to give a causal or explanatory c...
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USE OF STRUCTURE MAPPING THEORY FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS.
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It is widely agreed that similarity is an important factor in transfer of training. However, the precise role of similarity in transfer is not well understood. We believe that the account can be clarified by a finer grained analysis of ...
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Evidence for a Structure-Mapping Theory of Analogy and Metaphor
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Abstract : The central claim is that all analogies, and many metaphors, are fundamentally devices for mapping relational structures from one domain to another. This theory differs from other approaches in postulating that the interpreta...
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Psycftol€y Depafirnent METAPHOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLYI
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Metaphor is a pervasive'and important phenomenon, both'in literature and in ordinary language. lt is also an immensely variable phenomenon. The t'erm 'metapho/ is.often used lo refer lo nonliteral comparisons that are novel and vivid an...
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Learning Physical Domains: Toward a Theoretical Framework.
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Abstract : This paper presents a theoretical framework that is being developed in an attempt to construct a computational account of human learning of physical domains. Qualitative Process theory is used to model portions of people's ph...
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Mechanisms of Analogical Learning.
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Abstract : It is widely agreed that similarity and analogy are important in transfer of learning. Recent research suggests that different kinds of similarity enter into different parts of the transfer process. For example, access to lon...
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