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Paul Thagard
Researcher at University of Waterloo
Publications - 220
Citations - 19819
Paul Thagard is an academic researcher from University of Waterloo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Philosophy of science. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 216 publications receiving 19039 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Thagard include Virginia Tech & Princeton University.
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Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery
TL;DR: Induction is the first major effort to bring the ideas of several disciplines to bear on a subject that has been a topic of investigation since the time of Socrates and is included in the Computational Models of Cognition and Perception Series.
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Analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction
Keith J. Holyoak,Paul Thagard +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of analogical mapping between source and target analogs based upon interacting structural, semantic, and pragmatic constraints is proposed here and is able to account for empirical findings regarding the impact of consistency and similarity on human processing of analogies.
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Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought
Keith J. Holyoak,Paul Thagard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the analogies of the past, present and future of analogies are discussed, including the analogical child, analogical scientist and analogical computer, and analogy as therapy.