ABSTRACT
The importance that has been attached to the role of analogising in human thinking cannot be emphasised too strongly. Many artificial intelligence models that attempt to capture aspects of human thinking have some kind of mechanism for analogical mapping (e.g., Anderson, 1993; Carbonell, 1983; Gentner & Forbus, 1991a, b; Hofstadter, 1997; Holyoak & Thagard, 1989a; Kolodner, 1993). Anderson’s ACT-R and the various analogical models produced by Hofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group, for example, consider analogising to be fundamental to human thinking and learning.
