Rhetoric and Analogies

Enriqueta Aragones, Itzhak Gilboa, Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler

Working Papers from Tel Aviv

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; MODELS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 D83 D89 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2001
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