The purpose of this paper is to shed light on methods of facilitating evaluation of a base analog in analogical reasoning. With discussions about Clement’s methods and retrieval of base analog, we could demonstrate that by setting the activity to reinvestigate a target after expanding attention into the overall relationship through comparing with the relationship to the base, we could change similarity to pass through the related level. Similarly, we could demonstrate that by setting the activity to reconsider what kind of problem a target is, we could catch a target analog in an abstracting way moderately.

In a case study, the former method led to an evaluation by changing similarity to pass through the related level. The letter method lead to an evaluation in which two base analogs are compared. Therefore, we think we could define the methods of facilitating evaluation of a base analog and its utility.