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title: "An Examination of the Third Stage in the Analogy Process: Verification-based Analogical Learning"
authors:
  - "Brian Falkenhainer"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/52"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0052.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "260-262"
track: "Knowledge Acquisition"
keywords:
---

# An Examination of the Third Stage in the Analogy Process: Verification-based Analogical Learning

Brian Falkenhainer

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 260-262.

## Abstract

M~ny studio• of ~nalogy in Artiflci:.llntelligence have focuaed on ~n:.logy u :. heuristic mechanism to guide search ~nd aimplify problem aolving or u a buia for forming gener~lizationa . Thia paper examine• analogical leaming, where an~logy ia used to conjecture new knowledge about some domain. A theory of Verification-Baud Analogical Learning ia preaented which ~ddre11e1 the tenuous n~ture of ~nalogic~lly inferred concepti ~nd deacribea procedure• that can be used to increase confidence in the inferred knowledge. The theory describe• how ~nalogy may be uaed to diocover ~nd refine acientiflc modet. of the physical world . Ex~mplea ~re t~ken from an implemented ayatem, which diecoven qualit~tive modele of proceuea ouch u liquid flow and heat flow .