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Analogy is to priming as relations are to transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Vladimir M. Sloutsky
Vladimir M. Sloutsky
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. [email protected]://cogdev.cog.ohio-state.edu
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Abstract

The commentary discusses three components of the target proposal: (1) analogy as a host of phenomena, (2) relations as transformations, and (3) analogy as priming. The commentary argues that the first component is potentially productive, but it has yet to be fully developed, whereas the second and third components do not have an obvious way of accounting for multiple counterexamples.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 396 - 397
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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