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AFTERTHOUGHTS ON ANALOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS 1

In 1971 I wrote a paper attempting to relate some old philosophical issues about representation and reasoning to problems in Artificial Intelligence. A major theme of the paper was the importance of distinguishing “analogical” from “Fregean” representations. I still think the distinction is important, though perhaps not as important for current problems in A.I. as I used to think. In this paper I’ll try to explain why.