Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy

Gentner, D. (1983). Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy. Structure-mapping theory.

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1983

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• Source–Target Structure and Correspondence Matrix
  • It also drifts easily into surface-attribute matching (water is wet, electrons are…) instead of the relational matching where analogies actually hold; structure-mapping theory is explicit that it is systems of relations, not shared attributes, that make an analogy sound.

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