Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share. In...
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Electronic-hydraulic analogies are the representation of electronic circuits by hydraulic circuits. Since electric current is invisible and the processes...
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Government-Household analogy refers to rhetoric in political economic discourse that compares the finances of a federal government to those of a household. The analogy has...
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Allegory of the cave (redirect from Analogy of the cave)
by the latter. The allegory is presented after the analogy of the Sun (508b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–511e). In the allegory, Plato...
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Look up analogy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Analogy is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject to...
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watchmaker analogy or watchmaker argument is a teleological argument, an argument for the existence of God. In broad terms, the watchmaker analogy states...
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Argument from analogy is a special type of inductive argument, where perceived similarities are used as a basis to infer some further similarity that...
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Nikwax Analogy is a two-component fabric system for weatherproof clothing based on "biomimicry" of fur (the system was originally called "Nikwax Biological...
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Analogy in law is a method of resolving issues on which there is no previous authority by using argument from analogy. Analogy in general involves an inference...
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The microcosm–macrocosm analogy (or, equivalently, macrocosm–microcosm analogy) refers to a historical view which posited a structural similarity between...
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