Rhetoric and Analogies

Enriqueta Aragones, Itzhak Gilboa, Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler

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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: Methodology; Case-based reasoning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B40 B41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2013-07-09
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