Case-based thinking (CBR), comprehensively interpreted, is the way toward taking care of new issues dependent on the arrangements of comparable past issues. An auto repairman who fixes a motor by reviewing another vehicle that displayed comparative indications is utilizing case-based thinking. An attorney who advocates a specific result in a preliminary dependent on legitimate points of reference or an appointed authority who makes case law is utilizing case-based thinking. Along these lines, as well, an architect duplicating working components of nature (rehearsing biomimicry), is regarding nature as a database of answers for issues. Case-based thinking is an unmistakable sort of relationship arrangement making.

It has been contended that case-based thinking isn't just a ground-breaking technique for PC thinking, yet in addition an unavoidable conduct in ordinary human critical thinking; or, all the more fundamentally, that all thinking depends on past cases by and by experienced. This view is identified with model hypothesis, which is most profoundly investigated in subjective science.