Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Analogy is central to cognition. This article explores the importance of analogy-making in human thought and the role of perception, language, and memory in the process.
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Analogy is central to cognition. This article explores the importance of analogy-making in human thought and the role of perception, language, and memory in the process.
updated 5mo ago
Deep analogical thinking is the practice of recognizing conceptual similarities in multiple domains or scenarios that may seem to have little in common on the surface.
The heart of metaphor is inference. Conceptual metaphor allows inferences in sensory-motor domains (e.g., domains of space and objects) to be used to draw inferences about other domains (e.g., domains of subjective judgment, with concepts like intimacy, emotions, justice, and so on). Because we reason in terms of metaphor, the metaphors we use det
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Analogy is closely linked with metaphor and, indeed, we may think of these two notions as interchangeable: both point out likenesses in particulars between things that are otherwise dissimilar.