By Parallel Reasoning: The Construction and Evaluation of Analogical Arguments


Συγγραφέας: Paul Bartha


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Analogy is a very difficult topic to write about. Arguments by analogy are much weaker than arguments of better understood forms (like deductive or statistical arguments), and thus they are typically employed in domains that we don't yet understand well enough to apply more definitive arguments. The weakness of the arguments, and the diversity of domains in which they are applied, make the phenomenon itself hard to classify.