Author: R. Skousen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: language, modeling, analogical
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1989-10-31
List price: $147.00
ISBN-10: 0792305175
ISBN-13: 9780792305170

Review(s): ’Skousen develops an analogical approach, which is claimed to handle not merely cases which are problematic for structuralist approaches, but to be applicable equally to the cases with which structuralism is at its best - in short, to be an Einstein to the common Newton. This is altogether a stimulating and richly suggestive book whose fundamental notions are presented with formal rigour. Other, more psychologically adequate, formal analogical theories may be devised, but Skousen has shown the way forward.’ Artificial Intelligence and Stimulation of Behaviour Quarterly,

Authors:Stella Vosniadou, Andrew Ortony,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reasoning, analogical, similarity
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1989-07-28
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521389356
ISBN-13: 9780521389358

Similarity and analogy are fundamental in human cognition. They are crucial for recognition and classification, and have been associated with scientific discovery and creativity. Any adequate understanding of similarity and analogy requires the integration of theory and data from diverse domains. This interdisciplinary volume explores current development in research and theory from psychological, computational, and educational perspectives, and considers their implications for learning and instruction. The distinguished contributors examine the psychological processes involved in reasoning

Author: Usha Goswami
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: developmental, psychology, essays, children, reasoning, analogical
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1993-08-01
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0863773249
ISBN-13: 9780863773242

Analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive skill, involved in classification, learning, problem-solving and creative thinking, and should be a basic building block of cognitive development. However, for a long time researchers have believed that children are incapable of reasoning by analogy. This book argues that this is far from the case, and that analogical reasoning may be available very early in development. Recent research has shown that even 3-year-olds can solve analogies, and that infants can reason about relational similarity, which is the hallmark of analogy.The book traces the

Author: David Tracy
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Keywords: culture, pluralism, theology, christian, imagination, analogical
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1998-12-25
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0824506944
ISBN-13: 9780824506940

An essential addition to any serious theological library. David Tracy introduces his influential concept of the "classic," as well as his idea of the difference between analogical and other ways of viewing the life of faith. He looks at the culture of pluralism, examining the main differences in the world’s theological doctrines.

Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: language, collaboration, interpretation, understanding, enlightenment, thinking, post, analogical
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-01-31
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0472110888
ISBN-13: 9780472110889

Analogical Thinking argues that sometime around the turn of the twentieth century, a new mode of comprehension arose, supplementing received Enlightenment ideas concerning the nature of understanding and explanation. Focusing on the innovations of structural linguistics and its poststructural legacy, the individualism of Enlightenment knowledge and the collaborations of post-Enlightenment information, and practices of reading and interpretation across the arts and sciences, Analogical Thinking examines the ways in which analogical presentations of similarities respond to the experiences of twe

Author: J.A. Ramsaran
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers,Netherlands
Keywords: studies, history, religions, study, analogical, hindi, religious, poetry, english
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 1973-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9004036482
ISBN-13: 9789004036482

Authors:Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, Boicho N. Kokinov,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: science, cognitive, perspectives, mind, analogical
Number of Pages: 541
Published: 2001-03-05
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0262571390
ISBN-13: 9780262571395

Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case can be made for analogical processing as the very core of cognition. This is the first book to span the full range of disciplines concerned with analogy. Its contributors represent cognitive, developmental, and comparative psychology; neuroscience; artificial intelligence; linguistics; and philosophy. The book is divided into three parts. The first part describes computational models of ana