What Constitutes a Formal Analogy?

In Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, J. Anthony Blair, Ralph H. Johnson & Robert C. Pinto (eds.), Argumentation and its Applications, CD-ROM. Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. pp. 1-8 (2002)
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Abstract

There is ample justification for having analogical material in standardized tests for graduate school admission, perhaps especially for law school. We think that formal-analogy questions should compare different scenarios whose structure is the same in terms of the number of objects and the formal properties of their relations. The paper deals with this narrower question of how legitimately to have formal analogy test items, and the broader question of what constitutes a formal analogy in general.

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Gilbert Edward Plumer
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (PhD)

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