{"pk":26939,"title":"Analogical Inferences in Causal Systems","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"analogy; causality; structure mapping theory; in-ductive inferences"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cq5c1r7","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","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26939/galley/16575/download/"}]}