Rhetoric and Analogies

Itzhak Gilboa, Andrew Postlewaite, David Schmeidler and Enriqueta Aragonès
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No 706, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: The art of rhetoric may be defined as changing other people's minds (opinions, beliefs) without providing them new information. One technique heavily used by rhetoric employs analogies. Using analogies, one may draw the listener's attention to similarities between cases and to re-organize existing information in a way that highlights certain regularities. In this paper we offer two models of analogies, discuss their theoretical equivalence, and show that finding good analogies is a computationally hard problem.

Keywords: information; rhetoric; analogies; similarities; complexity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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