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Spontaneously we compare new things with what we have observed before, with the things we are already familiar with. This is a natural form of abstraction. By recognizing similarities or analogies in the way different phenomena happen we start to impose some structure on the world around us.
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Albertos, P., Mareels, I. (2010). Analogies. In: Feedback and Control for Everyone. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03446-6_2
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