Respects for Similarity

Medin, D. L., Goldstone, R. L., & Gentner, D. (1993). Respects for Similarity. Psychological Review, 100(2), 254-278.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1993

DOI

10.1037/0033-295x.100.2.254

Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.100.2.254

Cited from

cognitive_science

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Primes

• Comparison
  • Medin, Goldstone, and Gentner (1993) argue at length that any usable theory of similarity requires precisely this kind of role-decomposition — most centrally the explicit "respects" along which the comparison runs — without which similarity-talk collapses into the vacuity Goodman warned of.

    This sourceArgues any usable similarity construct requires explicit "respects" (dimensions of comparison) supplied by the comparison process itself — the canonical articulation of dimension-selection as a structural role in comparison.

Domain-specific

• Ugly duckling theorem
  • The entry records a descriptive analytical identity; practical use requires the governing domain's evidence, standards, and safety obligations.

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