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    Challenges→A normative theory offering principles for evaluating analogical arguments is still needed, even if computational models successfully model analogy construction.

    Computational models like ACME operationalize structural alignment constraints that already function as normative principles governing analogical validity.

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    • 1.Structural alignment constraints in ACME (systematicity, structural consistency) match principles philosophers already use to evaluate analogies.
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    • 2.Computational implementation reveals hidden normative commitments in analogical reasoning that were previously implicit in informal practice.
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    • 3.ACME's success at modeling human analogical judgments suggests its constraints capture genuine normative principles, not arbitrary algorithmic choices.
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    • 1.Descriptive adequacy (ACME matches human judgments) does not entail normative authority; humans may systematically reason poorly analogically.
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    • 2.Operationalization in code may merely formalize domain-specific heuristics rather than discover pre-existing universal normative principles.
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    • 3.The claim conflates functional necessity (ACME needs constraints to work) with philosophical justification (these constraints should govern validity).
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