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Analogous reasoning is a form of reasoning that is often used in daily life situations. It is also a form of reasoning that appears in certain AI applications such as learning and knowledge acquisition. Mostly a kind of quantitative notion of (dissimilarity is employed. In this paper we present a modal model for a qualitative notion of similarity and thus we obtain a basis for qualitative analogous reasoning. Topic areas: formal models for reasoning, nonmon. practical reasoning mechanisms.
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Meyer, J.J.C., van Leeuwen, J.C. (1996). Possible world semantics for analogous reasoning. In: Gabbay, D.M., Ohlbach, H.J. (eds) Practical Reasoning. FAPR 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61313-7_90
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