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Excerpt from A Theory of Natural Learning Similarity has been long recognized as an important theme in learning research. It is the basic concept in classification, pattern recognition, incremental concept forma tion, analogy. Most of the attempts, however, presumed a description language that makes easily accessible (computationally) those attributes that constitute the common part of objects or Situations. Nevertheless, the entire structure of those objects (that is, of their descriptions accessible to the learning algorithm) is potentially relevant for as sessing similarity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.