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For valuable comments and suggestions, I am grateful to Nancy Cantor, Mary Gick, Mark Golden, Alvin Goldman, Daniel Hausman, John Holland, Keith Holyoak, John McCumber, William Merrill, Marvin Minsky, Richard Nisbett, Michael Shafto, Luc Steels, Stephen White, and Jan Zwicky. This research has been aided by grants from the National Science Foundation (SES 81-07556), the University of Michigan Center for Cognitive Science, the University of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate Studies, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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Thagard, P. Frames, knowledge, and inference. Synthese 61, 233–259 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485316
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