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Evans Analogy: Summary

  1. Type of Problem: A rule connecting two situations is to be discovered and applied
  2. Formalisation: The two situations and the rule are represented symbolically
  3. Method: Two situations are compared and the rule formed by generalisation
  4. Advantages: Symbolic descriptions avoid ambiguity and redundancy found in English
  5. Disadvantages: The success is crucially dependent on procedures for building the descriptions
  6. Humans: What internal representations do humans manipulate?


paul@dream.dai.ed.ac.uk
Tue Jan 9 10:51:07 GMT 1996