analogists

But if forced to choose between a cit­i­zenry that can pro­duce a good 25-minute writ­ing sam­ple or spot a bad anal­ogy, we would be bet­ter off with a nation of analogists.

American Analog Set « Snarkmarket 2005

The debate/unlimited-warfare between the literalists and the analogists goes back to the third century ACE, at least.

The Bible as Elective Course in Public Schools - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Further, the analogists seemed to hold most of the high ground until an initially small and relatively weak sect of christians gained power through connections with some political hack named Constantine.

The Bible as Elective Course in Public Schools - The Panda's Thumb 2005

The motto of the analogists might be: “Always again.

Philocrites: August 2003 Archives 2003

In their attitude to the standard language analogists took a normative stand, while anomalists would bow to custom and good usage.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

The only way for the analogists to prove their case was to show that it was indeed possible to reduce the apparent chaos of language to some sort of order.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

When faced with textual obscurities and difficulties, the analogists tended to emend the text by analogy with more common forms.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

The Junggrammatiker (“young grammarians”), as they were called, met with strong opposition: it was the ancient struggle between anomalists and analogists all over again.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

The analogists stressed the regularity of language.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

One of the outcomes of the search for a standard was the struggle between anomalists and analogists.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968