Comparison is the fundamental basis of all learning and reasoning

Evidence

Comparison is not a frivolity. It is, on the contrary, the primary business of the brain. Some eighteenth-century philosophers spoke of the human mind as a tabula rasa, a “blank slate” on which sense impressions are recorded, compared, and grouped. Now we’re more likely to speak of the mind as a computer “storing” and “processing” “data.” What both metaphors acknowledge is that comparison is the basis of all learning and all reasoning. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 604

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to embodied/1cognitive science claims that analogy is central to thought, e.g. Hofstadter’s ‘Surfaces and Essences’. — connects to: Reasoning requires recognizing real logical connections and relationships among facts — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 247

Broader Connections

• Reasoning requires recognizing real logical connections and relationships among facts #corroborates (0.70) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 247