Rhetoric and Analogies
25 Pages Posted: 10 Jul 2013
Date Written: July 10, 2013
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
JEL Classification: B40, B41
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Aragonés, Enriqueta and Gilboa, Itzhak and Postlewaite, Andrew and Schmeidler, David, Rhetoric and Analogies (July 10, 2013). PIER Working Paper No. 13-039, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2292003 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2292003
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