The Wellbeing Analogy

Analogy

Analogy is a special kind of similarity (see Goldstone & Son, Chap. 2). Two situations are analogous if they share a common pattern of relationships among their constituent elements even though the elements themselves differ across the two situations. Typically, one analog, termed the source or base, is more familiar or better understood than the second analog, termed the target. This asymmetry...

Analogy in Farabi's Thought

Thinkers and philosophers have constantly benefited from different         approaches of reasoning to explore and justify their ideas. Theses reasoning            approaches are considered as the principle instruments in speculative activities of the thinkers. To this end to achieve the procedure of thinking and the way philosophers achieve objectives, it is necessary to recognize their reasoni...

Analogy in the Large

This article discusses the use of analogy to index and organize large databases of information We describe the design and implementation of an analogical database supporting tens to hundreds of thousands of cases The contents of the database are parsed news articles represented as networks of grammatical relations with references into WordNet for word meaning information The virtue of this appr...

The analogy of the hive.

Exploring analogy in the large