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    "title": "Analogical Inferences in Causal Systems",
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    "abstract": "Analogical and causal reasoning theories both seek to explainpatterns of inductive inference. Researchers have claimed thatreasoning scenarios incorporating aspects of both analogicalcomparison and causal thinking necessitate a new model of in-ductive inference (Holyoak, Lee, & Lu, 2010; Lee & Holyoak,2008). This paper takes an opposing position, arguing that fea-tures of analogical models make correct claims about infer-ence patterns found among causal analogies, including analo-gies with both generative and preventative relations. Experi-ment 1 demonstrates that analogical inferences for these kindsof causal systems can be explained by alignment of relationalstructure, including higher-order relations. Experiment 2 fur-ther demonstrates that inferences strengthened by matchinghigher-order relations are not guided by the transfer of prob-abilistic information about a cause from base to target. Weconclude that causal analogies behave like analogies in gen-eral—analogical mapping provides candidate inferences whichcan then be reasoned about in the target.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "analogy; causality; structure mapping theory; in-ductive inferences"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Matthew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Myers",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Dedre",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gentner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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