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Instantiated rules and abstract analogy: Not a continuum of similarity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Lee R. Brooks  and
Samuel D. Hannah
Lee R. Brooks*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada
Samuel D. Hannah*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada
*
brookslr@mcmaster.ca
hannahsd@mcmaster.ca
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Abstract

We agree that treating rules and similarity as dichotomous opposites is unproductive. However, describing all categorization operations as a continuum of varied similarity process obscures a multidimensional contrast. We describe two processes, instantiated rules and abstract analogy, both of which have aspects of rules and similarity, and question whether they can be compared informatively as points on a continuum.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 17
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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