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Analogical reasoning is a traditional mode of argument which has been applied in a variety of contexts — such as rhetorics, ethics, politics, mythology, metaphysics, theology, mathematics, logic, physics, biology, medicine, psychology, jurisprudence, engineering, and artificial intelligence. Within its everyday and scientific applications, analogy has been employed for different purposes — such as heuristics, justification, and problem solving. For these reasons, it cannot be expected that there is only one “correct” formal system for representing the “valid” patterns of analogical inference.
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Niiniluoto, I. (1988). Analogy and Similarity in Scientific Reasoning. In: Helman, D.H. (eds) Analogical Reasoning. Synthese Library, vol 197. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7811-0_13
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