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Name :	Devin Griffiths *		Name:
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Affiliation:	Rutgers University		Name:
Department:	Center for Cultural Analysis		E-mail:
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Talk Number:	08-03		E-mail:
Session:	8- Analogy in Reasoning and Construction		Schedule:   Room:	Saturday, 11:20   B-3420
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Title of presentation:	The Semantic Analysis of Analogy in Darwin's Origin of Species
Abstract:
I discuss the role of analogy in Darwin’s "Origin of Species" using textual analysis. One of his key contributions was to redefine "evolution", "species" and other basic concepts. I analyze single-sentence analogical constructions over the course of his work using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) in novel ways that include Fisher testing, leading to a discussion of analogy and its relationship to the coherence of sentence-to-sentence meaning. Analogies transfer characteristics between semantic systems and I reflect upon what this implies.