A New Approach to Argument by Analogy: Extrapolation and Chain Graphs.

This essay sketches an account of extrapolation in terms of analogical reasoning that generalizes the notion of comparative process tracing. The account offered here relies on something known as chain graphs, which are used to explicate the role of "fingerprints," or distinctive markers, as a strate...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 1058 - 1070
Main Author: Steel, Daniel
Format: Essay
Published: Cambridge University Press Dec2010
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