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    Counting overall similarities between source and target domains is not a reliable method for evaluating analogical arguments.

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    • 1.Hesse's (1966) distinction between positive, negative, and neutral analogies shows that raw similarity counts ignore whether shared features are causally relevant.
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    • 2.An analogy between two domains sharing 100 superficial features is weaker than one sharing 3 causally essential features, making counting a systematically misleading metric.
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    • 1.Goodman's 'grue' paradox demonstrates that without principled predicates, any two objects share infinitely many similarities, rendering counting computationally and conceptually vacuous.
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    • 2.A reliable evaluative method must discriminate between projectible and non-projectible properties, a distinction that mere similarity counting cannot supply.
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    • 1.Overall similarity is not a reliable guide to the plausibility of an analogical argument.
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    • 2.Counting similarities fails to explain the plausibility of any particular analogical argument.
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    Orderly structures emerge out of random low-level processes and the program produces plausible solutions. Copycat thus shows that analogy-making can be modeled as a process akin to perception, even if the program employs mechanisms distinct from those in human perception. The multiconstraint theory and Copycat share the idea that analogical cognition involves cognitive processes that operate below the level of abstract reasoning. Both computational models—to the extent that they are capable of
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