Analogies Hard and Soft

Abstract

Soft analogies are of heuristic value at best. their allure is in the illusion of a free gamble. forgeries are usually concrete analogues; at times they are abstract, as in the turing test situation. all forgeries are implicit systems of contexts within which analogies are supposedly hard. making them explicit may help transcend them. for example the turing test is proven unsuitable for his own purposes as it is metaphysical; it is transcended by a process of tests involving human-computer interactions in a familiar manner.