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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Similarity and analogy"”.
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Explication, similarity, and analogy: a defense and application of philosophical method
… such as ‘mind’, ‘truth’, ‘meaning’, ‘person’, and ‘right’. Rejecting analyticity as a viable philosophical notion undermines such efforts insofar as they aim at conceptual analysis. If philosophers give up the notion of analyticity, as they should, they are left with the questions of what goals …
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A Study of Similarity and Analogical Decision-Making in Collaborative Design
… of this study is to investigate the role of similarity and analogy in design communication and propose a descriptive representation of the analogical decision-making process in the context of engineering design. It is proposed that social, cultural, and contextual knowledge are brought to …
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The Epistemology of Artefact Comparisons in Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine
… comparisons in early Greek natural philosophy and medicine. Various thinkers frequently employed the structure and/or functioning of man-made artefacts to improve their understanding of a target domain in which direct observation is hindered or impossible, such as in meteorology, cosmology, or …