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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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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Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule), short for Godwin's law of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability...
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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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The watchmaker analogy or watchmaker argument is a teleological argument, an argument for the existence of God, originating in natural theology, which...
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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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All laws of circuit analysis, such as Kirchhoff's circuit laws, that apply in the electrical domain also apply to the mechanical impedance analogy. The...
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Magnetic circuit (redirect from Hopkinson's law)
may serve as a definition of reluctance. Hopkinson's law is not a correct analogy with Ohm's law in terms of modelling power and energy flow. In particular...
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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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Qiyas (category Analogy)
jurisprudence, qiyas (Arabic: قياس, qiyās [qɪˈjæːs], lit. 'analogy') is the process of deductive analogy in which the teachings of the hadith are compared and...
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