Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper we explore the hypothesis that the processes underlying the matching and use of knowledge during counterfactual reasoning are the same as those that underlie reasoning by analogy.We report two experiments which indicate that, in common with analogical reasoning, counterfactual reasoning exhibits the following properties: (i) it is sensitive to systematic structural congruencies between representations; (ii) when background knowledge has to be retrieved before it can be exploited, the impact of structurally congruent background knowledge on the counterfactual inferencing process is mediated by featural commonalities.
Authors: Daniel Yarlett, Michael Ramscar
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2767382520