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Could I please get some info on the kick-ass course in Analogy Writing 101″ that you and Mr. Lady have obviously taken?
The Amazing Survivor Race Challenge: Parenting Edition | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Analogy is a cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process.
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Analogy is the idea that what matters is relationship, connectedness, and context: A is to B, as C is to D. Religion reflects an analog vision of reality, as it celebrates relationship: we are brothers and sisters, children of God.
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Analogy is simultaneously one of the most powerful modes of thought and one of its most catastrophic failure modes.
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Analogy is embodiment -- or perhaps more precisely, reembodiment -- as is reading, as is representation, and as, too, in their own peculiar ways, are the writing and the multiplying of books.
Copyright 1999
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What are the various senses in which the word Analogy has been used?
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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The word Analogy, as the name of a mode of reasoning, is generally taken for some kind of argument supposed to be of an inductive nature, but not amounting to a complete induction.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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One of Those Rare Instances in Which the Nazi Analogy is Unavoidable
Balkinization 2007
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One of Those Rare Instances in Which the Nazi Analogy is Unavoidable
Balkinization 2007
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One of Those Rare Instances in Which the Nazi Analogy is Unavoidable
Balkinization 2007
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