A theory on how the mind extends knowledge. p.15
A multiconstraint theory - similarity, structure and purpose guide the formation of analogy through the stages of selection, mapping, evaluation and learning. p.17
"Scientific analogies have at least four purposes: discovery, development, evaluation and exposition." p.189
"A metaphor uses cross domain analogies. It is speaking about one thing to say something about another." p.213
"Allegories are extended metaphorical stories." p.215
"A metaphor always connects two domains in a way that goes beyond the normal category structure." p.217
Samuel Butler once said "Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have." p.262
Similarity of objects, similarity of relations, similarity of relations of relations.
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