ABSTRACT
Sometimes analogy researchers talk as if the freshness of an experience of analogy resides solely in seeing that something is like something else—seeing that the atom is like a solar system, that heat is like flowing water, that paintbrushes work like pumps, or that electricity is like a teeming crowd. Analogy is more than this, however. Analogy is not just seeing that the atom is like a solar system; rather, it is seeing something new about the atom, an observation enabled by “looking” at atoms from the perspective of one's understanding of solar systems. The question for analogy researchers then is: Where does this new knowledge about atoms come from? How can an analogy provide new knowledge and new understanding?
