How To Use Analogy In A Sentence

Finally, I think that Wright, who has written a good deal about evolution, is missing a basic evolutionary analogy.
In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students.
Incidentally, while this naturally brings up an analogy to the constitutional right to an abortion, the analogy is complex.
When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of past experience.

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It may be a dubious analogy, but just say that reading a novel is something like going on a ride at the midway.
She drew an analogy between childbirth and the creative process.
Our experience of how human minds work provides an analogy to how a primeval, creator mind probably worked.
He uses hectic fever as an analogy - as hectic fever is to the body, political maladies are to a state.
This fact at once points to an analogy with the umbellate allies, and induces us to examine the insertion of the flowers more critically. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
A better analogy (though still an impolitic one) would have been traffic fatalities.
It is true that mormaers are found inland, but an analogy may be made with Carolingian border officials ‘margrave’ and ‘marquis’ which became titles for members of the nobility far away from a frontier.
Baron Hafner's and Prince d'Ardea's manner toward Fanny had inspired her the day before with a dolorous analogy between the atmosphere of falsehood in which that poor girl lived and the atmosphere in which she at times thought she herself lived. The French Immortals Series — Complete
My analogy regarding giving more tax dollars to Congress, likening it to heroin addiction, is quite apt. Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit
But the analogy to the price system is badly strained.
From his vaguely defined methodological stance, Snooks criticizes Darwin's use of analogy.
A loose analogy with T. S. Eliot's notion of how a new classic affects the canon of a literature might be drawn here.
The real analogy behind natural selection is the work of the natural historian.
If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were.
In fact, there is a definite analogy to music used in perfumery and the ingredients are assembled and expressed as a top note, middle note or base note.
James Carville thought it was appropriate to liken Bill Richardson to Judas who sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver when he endorsed Barack Obama and reiterated his incongruous biblical analogy on CNN by saying that Richardson was being "disloyal" - not to the country, but to the Clintons. Sam Sedaei: The Price of Loyalty
The direct analogy to voltage and current is the flow of water through a hose.
Curry had observed in his work on combinatory logic in the late 1950's the analogy between implication elimination in natural deduction and functional application. Chores
Darwin's keen analogy of the fertilization of plants by pollen renders development from without conceivable, but as there are no insects to convey gemmules to their destination, each kind of gemmule would have to be exceedingly numerous and easily attracted from amongst an inconceivable number of other gemmules. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
Perhaps a closer analogy would be with a telescope that misrepresented what we were looking at.
The pollen cells are formed from mother cells by a process of cell division and subsequent setting free of the daughter cells or pollen cells by rejuvenescence, which is distinctly comparable with that of the formation of the microspores of Lycopodiaceæ, etc. The subsequent behavior of the pollen cell, its division and its fertilization of the germinal vesicle or oosphere, leave no doubt as to its analogy with the microspore of vascular cryptogams. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
The analogy of the sales pitch is revealing, for advertisers do not promote their product merely by providing information about it.
Illustration by analogy helps, but we should not overclaim what it can accomplish. The Times Literary Supplement
He was always falling in love, and I want to see an analogy between his falling in love so desperately, so intensely, and his fascination with tigers.
This is not an analogy to the DNA coding system because starlight existed long before humans (assumedly.) Attached to Strings
The steering wheel isn't the only possible basis for Cowan's analogy.
There is an analogy here with the way an engine works.
Coleman drew an analogy between Cheney and my favorite historical figure, Ulysses Grant.
There is an obvious analogy between operant conditioning and evolution by natural selection.
So the techne analogy might be construed to imply the impossibility of acrasia. Plato's Shorter Ethical Works
This is no sense at all of the faithfulness of God, neither is the word ever used in Scripture to signify any such thing in God or man, nor can it with any tolerable sense be applied to any such thing; neither would there be any analogy between that which in God we call faithfulness and that virtue in man which is so termed. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
I suspect that the band Phish may have been inspired to use the same f to ph substitution by the same analogy, but I haven't been able to confirm this.
I am reasoning by analogy and by reference to the extension of rights for humans.
During seminars at Göttingen on the magnetic resonance techniques of Rabi and of Kastler, it had occurred to me that because of the analogy between an atom and a radio dipole antenna, (a), alignment of the atom should show up in its optical absorption cross section, and (b), electron impact should produce aligned excited atoms. Hans G. Dehmelt - Autobiography
This is the source of scepticism about other minds: how, given that the argument from analogy does not work, can I claim to be justified in believing that there are any minds other than my own in the universe?
Based on corallite configuration, growth form and analogy with Acropora, Blastozopsammia had a relatively high degree of colony integration and may have been zooxanthellate.
I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some kind of body in space, either infused into the world, or infinitely diffused beyond the world -- and this was the incorruptible, inviolable, unchangeable substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the violable, and the changeable. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
Their analysis too often mingles management jargon, misapplied analogy, moralistic rhetoric, impatience and fear. Times, Sunday Times
Analogies are of interest because they require a construction and comparison of relationships between the members that make up the analogy.
This striking analogy could be useful in considering what is to be done with the herds of students who populate our land.
The book answers all these questions by analogy, with instances from the alternative America of the novel.
A rough analogy: using a net of a x gauge will fail to catch fish of a certain size, but these uncaught ones are not a definite category of fish.
-- The cells composing the embryous membrane contain, as already stated, the cerealine, but after the germination they contain cerealine and diastase, that is to say, a portion of the cerealine changed into diastase, with which it has the greatest analogy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
The game of chess is not a good analogy for protein sequences.
Plotinus observes, in his third Ennead, that the art of presaging is in some sort the reading of natural letters denoting order, and that so far forth as analogy obtains in the universe, there may be vaticination. Natural Vaticination and a Golden Chain
This analogy can be helpful, particularly if it gives a visual dimension to our thinking.
In favour, however, of the former view is the ordinary meaning of the word pleroma, the meaning of the phrase fulness of God, in other passages, the analogy of Scripture as exhibited in the parallel passages above quoted, and the simplicity of the interpretation, no paraphrase being necessary to bring out the sense. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
The word is borrowed by analogy from the terminology of linguistic syntax.
To use the analogy "to most users, the interface is the computer" he pointed out that with any paper we read the figure is the thing one remembers most and so the philosophy "to most viewers the presentation is the data". Google Earth Scientific Applications
I was misled partly by the analogy with the surface of the earth.
Norma drew an analogy between childbirth and the creative process.
If they are going to argue from analogy, then human's design things which are less complicated than themselves.
If there is an analogy between our own age and the Restoration it is perhaps that for us what has been ‘restored’ is capitalist Liberal Democracy.
These studies had a great analogy, for man is to a great degree composed both of the substances on which animals feed, and was also forced to look in the vegetable kingdom for affinities susceptible of animalization. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
Each can be seen as drawing an analogy with one or more strands of Marxist epistemology.
A better analogy is to equate the new swimsuits with flippers and hand paddles, equipment devices that enhance performance.
Processes of analogy have created coinages like petrodollar, psycho-warfare, microwave on such models as petrochemical, psychology, microscope.
It's all messaging," Carie says under her breath, seeing an analogy between the gravity of her work and the airiness of Oscar week. For filmmakers behind documentary on terrorism, a strange journey to Hollywood
So the analogy of "taking $10 from the poor chap" is too much, because it carries the moral loading of losing something that was their rightful property, while it's not at all clear that we should or do carry a moral right to dump however much CO2 (or whatever) into the atmosphere as suits us with no thought to the potential consequences for future generations. What Kind of Global Warming Skeptic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The supposed flowers are the sculpturings on the scales of the ichthyolite; and, true to the analogy of the diker, on at least a first glance, they may be held to resemble the rather equivocal florets of a cheap wall-paper, or of an ornamental tile. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
As we saw in section 3.4, the Second Analogy of Experience, if true, guarantees both the objectivity and the universal diachronic or temporally successive causal necessitation of objects of experience and all of their parts under natural laws. Kant's Theory of Judgment
the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain
By analogy, that term came to be applied to transmitting radio or television signals over a wide area.
Lyell's system was, therefore, to exemplify an epistemological analogy.
Another analogy might be an index file in which each index card represents a schema.
I see about me living human beings, and the argument from analogy is supposed to allow me to infer that these are persons like myself.
And as poignant as that analogy may be, it is not the crux of the matter.
It would be a waste of time, in the present state of science, to controvert this hypothesis, as it is now admitted that even if the rush of a diluvial current, invented for the occasion and wholly without analogy in the known course of nature, be granted, it would be inadequate to explain the uniformity, parallelism, persistency, and rectilinearity of the so-called glacial furrows. The Antiquity of Man
People use the "family budget" analogy because we're supposed to respect the image of a thrifty, self-disciplined homestead. Richard (RJ) Eskow: The United States Isn't a Company and It Isn't a Family -- It's a Country.
It's true, to use a golf analogy, it's like they shanked the ball with Ago, called a mulligan, and hit a 300-yard drive before anyone could linger on the initial embarrassment. Rachel Thebault: The "Do-Over!": Reinventing Your Failing Business
But mostly we develop our language by analogy.
The Ciceronian Review also quarrels with the rotunda analogy.
Victor Davis Hanson makes an analogy between where we are now and where Lincoln was in 1864, as his first presidential term was ending.
To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, effete, cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders.
To continue the footballing analogy, it is like asking footballers to sign a formal declaration before each game that they will not cheat and will always play fair.
It wouldn’t surprise me if 25 years from now server-based alphanumeric e-mail and text messaging/paging are viewed as little more than historical curiosities, and the holding in Quon will have to be interpreted by analogy — probably bad analogy — like that old “HDD is just like a file cabinet” paradigm judges used to be so fondof. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Fourth Amendment, New Technologies, and the Case for Caution
Courses of instruction listed in the 1846 Catalogue include: Spelling, grammar, arithmetic, geography, uranography, composition, botany, physiology, algebra, natural philosophy, metal and moral science, rhetoric, chemistry, geometry, criticism, history, logic, trigonometry, astronomy, mineralogy, Butler's analogy, and evidences of Christianity.
An analogy between point-and-shoot photography and desktop design analysis isn't that far-fetched.
Your analogy with the Queen is bizarre - her role is purely ceremonial.
Such lines between operators have come to be known as _trunk lines_, because of the obvious analogy to trunk lines of railways between common centers, and such a system of telephone lines may be called a Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
His historical analogy was compelling, but that didn't save him from being denounced by right-thinking peers for his tastelessness.
The computer is a useful analogy for the brain.
The inference of intelligence from marks of design in nature is not one of analogy, but of strict and proper _induction_; and accordingly we must either deny that there are marks of _design_ in nature, thereby discarding the _analogy_, or do violence to our own reason by resisting the fundamental law of causality, thereby discarding the inductive inference. Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of past experience.
Looks like the "middle ground" is where the quantum mystics hang out and propose unnecessary quantum explanations for well-understood chemical mutation processes based on an extremely vague analogy between photon capture in chlorophyll and base pair mutations in DNA. A Voice from the Middle Ground
One of my hosts wondered if music was becoming a commodity, but (to use the analogy), the camgirl phenom suggests the reverse: "old" porn was a commodity -- one picture for 1,000,000 viewers; this is much closer to one-to-one "bespoke" production. Boing Boing: June 2, 2002 - June 8, 2002 Archives
A friend of mine takes the moral analogy between the aftermath of the Civil War and the current situation in Iraq one step further.
The geometrical analogy is a most illuminating one, for it enables us to understand how manyness may be indispensable to a being that is essentially unitary. The Approach to Philosophy
In applying his general hylomorphism to soul-body relations, Aristotle contends that the following general analogy obtains.
But Rothschild’s book is still probably the best case yet made for the biological analogy, what the author calls “the bionomic perspective.” Economic Principals
These analogies have the effect of establishing an analogy between the substance of Godhead and an individual human person, rather than between the hypostases and three human persons.
A close analogy with the art of singing can be made.
He drew an analogy between the brain and a vast computer.
I must say that the most enlightened thing you said in your post was, in an odd analogy, that the reason university faculty politics become so bitter and fractious is because there is "... so little at stake," That´s it precisely. The Lake Chapala Society
Then there's the other kind of anthologist, the Disch kind, the weirdo, the iconoclast, the demented hedgehog to steal Archilochus of Paros's analogy. Film Structure
The analogy is Melo, he's having a great year but to tweak his game a little and push it to the next level, He should h ... "terrence stith 30 minutes ago Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
The concept of the Church's catholicity was a good two centuries old by Nicea ... interestingly, (and I think someone like Möhler offers a cock-eyed interpretation of Ignatius on this), Ignatius sets up an analogy whereby the congregation is found with the bishop just as "wherever Jesus Christ is, there also is the katholike ekklesia. "Protestantism is dangerous. ..."
However, I'm also reminded of an analogy between blogs and old-style soapbox speakers in City parks.
Suki and colleagues have taken the more conservative position that physical forces merely dissect the tissue as if it were a hank of rope under tension (their analogy).
This holds, by analogy to physiological process, that once inflation has been extruded from the economic system by a sufficiently painful application of monetarism - the economic and oral equivalent of a major dose of castor oil or epsom salts - it is gone for good. Economic Policy and the Liberal Left
Epistles to Timothy and Titus, which is assisted by a supposed analogy between the position of the Apostles and of their successors; although the term bishop is clearly used in the passages referred to as well as in other parts of the New Testament indistinguishably from Presbyter, and the magisterial authority of bishops in after ages is unlike rather than like the personal authority of the Apostles in the beginning of the Gospel. Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
The experiment is, of course, an analogy for Wolfe's Dupont University, where the school's national champion basketball team is revered, and its players, all genetic freaks with, in effect, the thinking portion of their brains removed (they are discouraged from taking real courses), enjoy a "hypermanic" sex life with the eager coeds who line their paths. Cry Wolfe
The underlying analogy is threefold: to consume wine or to abstain from its consumption is to welcome into or exclude from the body politic an outcast which is also to grant or deny representation within a symbolic order. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
There is a further analogy in how you incorporate what you learn into your entire apperceptive mass.
But is preventive medicine really the proper analogy to contraception?
Far from being proof of children's linguistic inadequacy, analogy is a demonstration of their mastery of the core rules of English morphology.
Socrates' preferred analogy for his own role in the city was that of a gadfly, who lit upon his fellow citizens and sought to sting them into a healthy state of intellectual wakefulness.
This analogy suggests that comparing the language proficiency of a monolingual with a bilingual's dual language or multilingual proficiency is similarly unjust.
He compares his subject to shoddy construction, and that's an analogy we can work with, because in software we're working at the thrilling edge of language and craftsmanship.
Another disanalogy between necessity and non-causability is that if p is necessary, p is possible, but if p is not causable, there is no category parallel to the possible that applies to p. The realm of standard modality is divided into the possible and the impossible. Foreknowledge and Free Will
The "tollbooth" analogy is imperfect because traffic through the public peering points is free. Nemertes Research - Independence, Integrity, Insight
The closest analogy to a lv is a partition - you need to format a filesystem within it, and then mount it. LinuxQuestions.org
The grass beside the well, buoyantly undisturbed, leads to an analogy with sedge which is growing near the sea on much shakier ground. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson
I argue that, in addition to organizational dynamics, the analogy of family relationships may also be fruitful for understanding gender in modern religious denominations.
In the architectural analogy, we can think of bulldozers as the ground clearing tools of demolition.
The synoptic view of the value of one's moral life has rarely found a more striking analogy.
In recent years, he has proposed the analogy between analytical dynamics and analytical structural mechanics based on the symplectic mathematics.
Such an analogy helps to reinforce the distinctive orientations of the two modes.
And it strikes me as a singularly inapt analogy to make, an analogy that ought to make one question its user's underlying thinking about the problem.
By analogy, the same principle could apply to other insiders, such as merchant bankers, who misuse confidential news.
How apt is the common analogy between America and Rome? 18 Non-Fiction Essays by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
The new disease called morbus Thomsenii, of which I wrote in my report last year, has been carefully studied by several men of eminence, and the following conclusions have been reached as to its pathology: The weight of the evidence seems to prove that it is of a neuropathic rather than a myopathic nature, and that it depends on an exaggerated activity of the nervous apparatus which produces muscular tone, and that it has much analogy to the muscular phenomena of hysterical hypnosis, the genesis of which is precisely explained by a functional hyperactivity of the nervous centers of muscular activity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
I guess one could draw an equally strong analogy to the classical symphony's slow introduction before a first-movement allegro.
The analogy is broadly applicable: good designing is a skill developed in the field, not in a tournament.
Analogy means that the events being investigated are essentially similar in kind to those of which we ourselves have direct experience.
Finally, the authors misuse the air-space analogy in their discussion of the treatment of airliners.
Even so, a rough analogy between the two periods is possible.
Between the taboo of ‘eating the dead’ and that of eating domestic animals, the analogy between relatives and animals is clear.
Analogy does not depicture an inward struggle in his own mind, but as Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
Let us pursue the analogy between memes and genes further.
The analogy was well meant, but did not altogether please him.
I think it a conclusion, fully justified by analogy, that, sooner or later, we shall discover the remains of our less specialised primatic ancestors in the strata which have yielded the less specialised equine and canine quadrupeds. Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
The juxtaposition of this telling color with the anti-golf slur can manages to convey both despair at the loss of human life as well as a fierce contempt for those who would use this procedure as a remedy for the products of recreational sex -- though really, the implication is almost undermined by the almost-too-obvious analogy with golf's "have fun getting the ball in the hole" objective. March 11th, 2005
Using the analogy of a poker game he explained why an honor system, if correctly understood and adequately communicated, attempts to eliminate doubt on this point and why such terms as "ratting," "squealing," etc. are not appropriate. Board of Visitors minutes
Another psychologist, E.M. Thornton, extends the analogy between hypnotism, mesmerism, and exorcism.
His mousetrap analogy is flawed, and appeals to things in laypeople that are highly misleading (it misled you, for instance, and it is especially misleading in the implication that we should look at the issue as one of taking a part away from a complex system, or in assuming that all parts all exist for only a certain function instead of potentially being exapted). Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority of Republicans are creationists.
The analogy is exact: it is moderately rare for the whipper-in to whip a hound. The Spectator's Notes
Hence, Whately uses the term analogy as an expression for the similarity of relation, and in this regard the use of analogy for our real work has no special significance. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of past experience.
Instead of correcting the wrong bits I should have just thrown the whole analogy back at him.
That analogy is singularly inapt to this particular situation.
Even Jesus' analogy of patching an old cloak with a new piece of cloth is unfamiliar in today's world of preshrunk and synthetic materials.
Continuing with the analogy of the file cabinet, a defragmenter is the helpful assistant that comes in and alphabetizes all your documents in the appropriate folders and file drawers for you. Lifehacker
Thus if the power of the magnetic needle of turning towards the north, or the shock given by touching both sides of an electrized coated jar, was related for the first time to a philosopher, and to an ignorant person; the former would be less ready to believe them, than the latter; as he would find nothing similar in nature to compare them to, he would again and again repeat the experiment, before he would give it his entire credence; till by these repetitions it would cease to be a single fact, and would therefore gain the evidence of analogy. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
She wasn't wrong-though she could do with a classier analogy. Times, Sunday Times
A useful analogy might be if a loved one shared something deeply personal with you, and you then posted it up on your blog the next day because, hey, information wants to be free.
The analogy with (4), already close, can be made even closer by introducing τ = √ -1 ct, τ′ = √ -1 ct′, for now s2 = x′2 + y′2 + z′2 + τ′2 RELATIVITY
It loses whenever it's "constipated" (love that analogy) with orthodoxies. Darwin's Defenders Go Neo-Lamarckian
Continuing with the analogy of the file cabinet, a defragmenter is the helpful assistant that comes in and alphabetises all your documents in the appropriate folders and file drawers for you. Five Best Disk Defragmenters | Lifehacker Australia
Another source of change in pronoun systems is analogy of various kinds.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of past experience.
To draw the kind of analogy that Adams is adept at drawing, imagine a chef who overcooks the roast, and then, by way of apology, leaves the kitchen to join the diners in eating it.
Historically there was no letter " l " in the word " could " ; it was inserted by analogy with " would ".
The stereotypes of Hansel and Gretel in Web 2.0 goes thus: Alot of (greedy) entrepreneurs talk about dilution like it's a really bad thing and end up failing because they didnt incent enough of the right people and resources to get behind the dream; Then another group (VC) talk about growing the overall pie so as to negate dilutionary impacts; The classic VC/Entrepreneur pig and bacon analogy. Fast + Furious Rocket Fuel Startups Should Gauge Probability of Success
I know of no other use of the word "imprest" as a substantive; and though we see "debenture" often enough in railway reports, I cannot perceive the analogy between its meanings in the two cases. Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850
So you have a difficult disanalogy in your argument. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Paranoid Conservatives”:
The photojournalist is the best analogy, since like a scientist the journalist has an obligation to represent the phenomena faithfully, but also compellingly. Pretty pictures
Admittedly, this is a simplistic analogy, but it captures the essence of the issue.
The term "analogy" was to be retained for cases of functional resemblance, whether homogenetic or not. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
A name ascribed in different senses by analogy signifies different relations to one and the same thing, as Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
Dr. Priestley founds, not on the _resemblance or analogy, _ but on the _essential difference_, between created and uncreated intelligence; but, in point of fact, the _difference_, great and real as it is, has no bearing on the only question at issue; it is the _resemblance or analogy_ between all thinking beings and the Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
Abp1 (and by analogy cortactin) also might function to attenuate stronger NPFs in vivo.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of past experience.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of past experience.
The entire regulatory apparatus is sometimes called the ‘appestat’ on the analogy of a thermostat, which regulates temperature.
Law students tend to become more concerned with matters of proper procedure and exhibit an increased tendency to reason by analogy.
Seizing a portion of common stock from a corporation is the precisely correct analogy to depriving a human of liberty for a set time period. Think Progress » Don Blankenship’s Record Of Profits Over Safety: ‘Coal Pays The Bills’
Of course, my fridge is an analogy for the rest of my life. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: December 2004 Archives
This metaphor invites us to see an analogy between one's training in Stoic ethics as preparatory for living the philosophic life and someone's training in athletics as preparatory for entering the contest in the arena.
Here again, the analogy between individual and organizational attitudes and behavior patterns is revealing.
Regarding an underlying mathematical edifice, a possible analogy in mathematics is the existence of non-computable numbers, these numbers have no deterministic, no algorithmic description, yet they exist. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
I suppose the analogy is that nothing but weeds will grow in badly prepared soil. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The wild wood and the holy city: settings for fantasy
In response to my early drafts of this article, the following analogy was proposed.
There is an obvious analogy between operant conditioning and evolution by natural selection.
Moquin [263] relates having found in the neighbourhood of Montpellier a flower of a tulip the ovary of which was represented by true leaves, which bore on their margins the ovules, and thus presented a striking analogy with the carpels of those Sterculias, like _S. platanifolia_, which are foliaceous in texture and open very early in the course of their development. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
You could make the analogy that it has the weight of aluminum with the strength of steel.
A second element of positive analogy between these two presumptions is that both are defeasible; and that they are, consequently, not to be identified with assumptions.
In one of my favorite chapters, on aging and beauty, Northrup uses the lovely analogy of moving from the rosebud stage to the full-blown rose and, finally, to the shiny red fruit of the rose.
The thesis that experience of the contemporaneousness of art involves us in more than what we are presently aware of (i.e., the “substance” of underlying and on-going trans-individual linguistic and cultural practices) is supported by the three arguments from analogy concerning the character of play, the festival and the symbol. Gadamer's Aesthetics
To explain it, Eliot gave the analogy of a catalyst in a chemical reaction.
There is a disanalogy between the Israeli plant, the only major desalting plant using RO, and California: the Israelis, who already recycle 70% of their wastewater and use a much higher percentage of available water for domestic use (25% domestic, according to an article by Mark Gold, vs. 10% domestic in California), don't have a choice: they have to pay $3000 per AF, more if necessary. San Diego's failure to treat sewage costs us money
An analogy with the film industry, or treatment as an entirely distinct medium requiring its own organization, was inappropriate.
Not simply in a by analogy, ‘Consider the lilies’, sense 2, but in the sense that fundamental mechanisms about what we see can ONLY come from (messy, imperfect) animals and not from the (clean, perfect) mathematical focus of earlier workers (Francis mentions, germanely, Bablyonian astronomy/astrology – these deal with relatively ‘pure’ concepts and predictable celestial motions, not the uncertainty with which biology has traffic). "Let them learn Latin"
The analogy between the seed out of the ground and the seed in the ground is exactly applicable to man.
And this fits with the analogy of the "cratch" which does not disappear merely because the Blessed Mother put our Lord in it. Why Should I Even Respond?
There is no distinct boundary between the perceived and the apperceived, and Wundt's analogy may be misleading [50] to the extent that it gives the impression of two separable forms of attention able in principle to subsist together simultaneously (that is, apperception focusing upon a point in the perceptual field while that field continues to be perceived). Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
He tries to mansplain it with a weak athlete analogy, but she cuts him short.
Or can we ever hope to erect a system of cosmogony, that will be liable to no exceptions, and will contain no circumstance repugnant to our limited and imperfect experience of the analogy of nature?
It's a compelling analogy, because when you encounter what he referred to as the hyper variety, then the productive resources of a society are diverted to dealing with that problem. Vp Gore Briefing On Summit Of Americas
Certainly, therefore, anger, and the like affections, can by no means be ascribed to the infinitely perfect God in the proper and usual acceptation of the words, but only by an anthropopathy; attributing that to God, which bears some analogy and proportion to what we find in men. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
They use the analogy of a broken window - if a broken window in a building is not repaired then the other windows will soon be broken too because people get the impression that nobody cares.
Front-loading is not a philosophical position so your analogy is irrelevant. Blast From the Past
The other is marriage contract in concept, as a kind of use in analogy, just for doctrinal analysis while the marriage parties in reality do not conclude contract.
Husserl insists that the talk of intuition here is no mere analogy.
Unless such points are maintained, the analogy becomes so strained that little that is distinctive about natural selection remains.

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