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The 24 pages that link to Analogy, each with the reason it gives.

• Deductive reasoningCompared with: Analogical support is usually ampliative, not deductively conclusive.

• Natural theologyRelated: Arguments from nature often infer divine qualities by analogy with familiar causes.

• Inductive reasoningRelated: Analogical arguments project a known feature from one case to a similar case.

• Comparative religionRelated: Analogies can illuminate parallels while obscuring differences in historical setting.

• AllusionRelated: An allusion may invite an analogy without stating the comparison explicitly.

• ParableRelated: Interpreting a parable means mapping features of its story onto a larger situation.

• Semantic changeRelated: Analogical patterns can support the spread of a semantic innovation.

• Popular scienceRelated: Popular science uses analogies to make unfamiliar processes easier to picture.

• ProverbRelated: A proverb invites listeners to map a familiar situation onto the one at hand.

• Scientific modelCompared with: An analogy can suggest a model, but does not by itself specify a testable representation.

• SimileRelated: Similes can make an analogy vivid, though they need not develop one in detail.

• Analogy of beingNarrower topic: The analogy of being applies this broader kind of comparison to language about God and creatures.

• George PólyaRelated: Pólya emphasized using analogies with solved problems to suggest approaches to new ones.

• Indo-European ablautCompared with: Analogy can level inherited grade differences or spread them beyond their earlier distribution.

• Epic simileRelated: An epic simile turns resemblance into an extended way of interpreting a scene.

• Doctrine of signaturesRelated: The doctrine inferred a therapeutic link from resemblance between a plant and a body part.

• ExtrapolationCompared with: Analogy transfers structure across cases rather than extending a measured relationship along its range.

• Metaphysical conceitNarrower topic: A conceit develops analogy into a sustained structure of thought.

• Teleological argumentNarrower topic: Paley’s reasoning depends on treating organisms as relevantly like human-made artifacts.

• Mathematical conjectureRelated: Similarities between mathematical settings can suggest conjectures in a new setting.

• Nicholas of CusaRelated: Cusa relies on analogy to speak about God while acknowledging the limits of such language.

• Douglas HofstadterRelated: Hofstadter treats analogy-making as a central mechanism of thought and creativity.

• Francis PongeRelated: Unexpected comparisons let his objects acquire vivid, unfamiliar qualities.

• Functional fixednessRelated: Analogies can suggest new roles for objects by importing a solution from another context.