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Download full textGentner, Dedre; Jeziorski, Michael – 1987
Analogy is widely considered to be an important mechanism of scientific thinking and a source of creative insight in theory development. In this paper the implicit constraints that determine analogical soundness are considered. It first examines the constraints that govern analogical reasoning as it is predicted today. The scientific uses of…
Descriptors: Analogy, College Science, Generalization, Higher Education
