Similar Situations
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This paper studies the notion of similarity with reference to situations of situation theory. While the commonsense notion of two situations resembling each other appears to be valuable in our daily life, we show that it is problematic for the same reasons researchers have been pointing out in psychological and philosophical literature. That human beings can u e the notion naturally (without much effort) shows that their cognitive make-up is probably much more powerful than is commonly thought.
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