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This article is the twenty-seventh of a series of articles discussing various open research problems in automated reasoning. The problem proposed for research asks one to find criteria that an automated reasoning program can apply to determine whether to attack a given question with reasoning by analogy. The imprecise term ‘reasoning by analogy’ refers to a type of reasoning in which the type of proof being sought is sharply influenced by the style of proof that was successfully used to prove related theorems.
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This work was supported by the Office of Scientific Computing, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38.
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Wos, L. The problem of reasoning by analogy. J Autom Reasoning 10, 421–422 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881800
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881800