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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Structure-mapping theory of analogy"”.
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The Epistemology of Artefact Comparisons in Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine
This thesis examines the epistemology of artefact 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 …
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Finding the commonalities: The role of analogical mapping during similarity judgments
… been devoted to understanding what makes a pair of objects similar. This research has demonstrated that the similarity of a pair increases with its commonalities and decreases with its differences. These common and distinctive elements can take the form of parts of objects, relations between …