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I don't know why publications continue to promote this tired - and wrong - argument (I'll put it in the list of academic papers I need to write, offering a refutation of the view). It is ironic that the example in this argument actually proves the opposite of the point. "Using the analogy was not hard; the problem was thinking to use it in the first place," Willingham explained. Well that's right. Unless you understand that analogy works independently of domain, you wouldn't think to use it.

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