Analogy as the Core of Cognition
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Hofstadter proposes that recognizing a new case as an instance of a familiar category already involves analogy. Transfer questions offer a way to examine what relation a learner noticed.
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analogy is the mechanism that creates or that allows categorization to happen.between seeing something as a category category member and seeing something as analogous to something else.