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No: computers can't draw analogies

Computers can't understand analogical comparisons or metaphors. For example, a machine could not understand the sentence: 'she ran like the wind'.

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Note: Analogy arguments are also discussed by George Lakoff in the 'Symbolic Data' arguments on Map 3.

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