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An analogy can be thought of as the existence of a type of similarity relationship between at least one source domain and one target domain that are not identical. It may also be thought of as the linguistic, imagistic, or other expression of such a relationship. Finally, analogy can refer to the cognitive processes involved in comparing the source and the target of an analogy, where that comparison may be made for different purposes. Correspondences are the mappings between the source and the target making up the analogy. Sometimes “correspondence” is used to refer to the mapping of a specific element in the source domain to the target; sometimes it refers to the overall comparison or set of mappings between domain and target. Herein, “correspondence” will be used in the former sense. The coherence or multi-constraint approach to analogy computes...
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Guarini, M. (2012). Analogical Coherence/Correspondence. In: Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_828
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