analogical

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It may also be fitting to describe this as a general or arbitrary analogical or mapping ability.

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Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an analogy.

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an analogy.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for analogical.

adjective

Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an analogy.

Example sentences

It may also be fitting to describe this as a general or arbitrary analogical or mapping ability.

See how you might like this definition: intelligence, including artificial intelligence (which just means intelligence resting on non-organic materials), means general and arbitrary analogical ability.

And there is an entire chapter about what scientists in this article are calling analogical machines.

What would HN be without people like you to clear up analogical inconsistencies?

There's also the anecdotal/analogical style, the narrative style — of course you can use any voice you wish to sew multiple styles together.

Those who hanker for surgery, or lightsabres, or precision archery, or any number of analogical departures -- they naturally drift to other languages.

Most interesting is that expensive analogical cables are as much as useless.

I think another major point of intelligence would be if AI could perform arbitrary analogical mapping.

If as humans we learn from existing concepts hence skeuomorphism - our new concepts would mostly be analogical to existing ones?

Do you need your cable for digital or analogical signal?

I used to love the unaltered quality of digital data versus fragile analogical mediums.

My problem in understanding is that analogies usually work because there is some similarity between the qualities of the analogical objects and the objects they refer to.

Quote examples

Unfortunately, choosing something with a reproductive cycle that humans can have gut-feeling level experience with restricted my analogical options to, um, "undesirables".

But I think you also wanted a more specific definition to general mental ability, to which I offered "general and arbitrary analogical ability".

It seems very plausible that we could raise whatever people are trying to invoke when people say words like "intelligence", IQ, g, or arbitrary analogical ability.

By "math" I was referring to number sequences (which number comes next...), as opposed to geometric patterns (which shape comes next...); by "vocab" I was referring to analogical questions (a is to b as c is to __).