Analogical Arguings and Explainings

Analogical Processes -1 Analogical Processes in Human Thinking and Learning

Much of humankind's remarkable mental aptitude can be attributed to analogical ability – the ability to perceive and use relational similarity. In this chapter, we present an overview of analogy and describe its component processes, including structural alignment and inference projection, evaluation, schema abstraction and re-representation. We discuss how these component processes lead to lear...

Analogical Estimation

Analogy lets us make inferences from a better known example on to a less known one. Analogical estimation is a specific kind of analogical inference, namely, inferring the quantitative value of an unknown based on a known value from a similar example. We present Analogical Estimator, a computational model of analogical estimation. A key claim of this work is that we don’t need a separate mechan...

Analogical Reasoning

Logical and analogical reasoning are sometimes viewed as mutually exclusive alternatives, but formal logic is actually a highly constrained and stylized method of using analogies. Before any subject can be formalized to the stage where logic can be applied to it, analogies must be used to derive an abstract representation from a mass of irrelevant detail. After the formalization is complete, ev...

Analogical Instruction

analogical transfer, the present study systematically compared the effect of ing that animated source instruction facilitated spontaneous analogical inference. Analogical reasoning is a cognitive underpinning of the ability to notice and draw providing practical suggestions for classroom instruction. We first discuss. Learning, instruction, problem solving, transfer, analogical reasoning, instr...

Analogical Prediction