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Analogy is important not only in ordinary language and common sense ( where proverbs and idioms give many examples of its application ) but also in science, philosophy and the humanities.
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This comparison is the basis of his Analogy of Being.
Analogy phonics is a particular type of analytic phonics in which the teacher has students analyze phonic elements according to the phonograms in the word.
She is currently writing a book about photography, called The Miracle of Analogy, and her long-in-the-making book, Flesh of My Flesh, was published by Stanford University Press in fall 2009.
The Allegory of the Cave — also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave, or the Parable of the Cave — is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate " our nature in its education and want of education " ( 514a ).
Analogy ( from Greek ἀναλογία, analogia, " proportion ") is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject ( the analogue or source ) to another particular subject ( the target ), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process.
Analogy and abstraction are different cognitive processes, and analogy is often an easier one.
James Francis Ross in Portraying Analogy ( 1982 ), the first substantive examination of the topic since Cajetan's De Nominum Analogia, demonstrated that analogy is a systematic and universal feature of natural languages, with identifiable and law-like characteristics which explain how the meanings of words in a sentence are interdependent.
Analogy is commonly also referred to as homoplasy, which is further distinguished into parallelism, reversal, and convergence.
He is most famous for his Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel ( 1726 ) and Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed ( 1736 ).
The Analogy is an important work of Christian apologetics in the history of the controversies over deism.
His analytical approach is that of " Analogy.
Analogy is important.
Law's Case of Reason ( 1732 ), in answer to Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation is to some extent an anticipation of Joseph Butler's argument in the Analogy of Religion.
A False Analogy is a faulty instance of the Argument from analogy.
" Analogy is concerned with discovering resemblances or differences between two or more things proceeding from known to unknown ; it is a useful tool for investigating comparisons and contrasts because it always asks the question " What is it like or unlike?
In his seventies, Analogy is the head of the Swindon branch of SO-27, the LiteraTecs, and is therefore Thursday's immediate superior.
* Analogy requires that the manufacturing contract with advance payment be prohibited on the basis of analogy-however this is made permissible according to ijma.
Analogy, therefore, is uncontroversial only when used to suggest hypotheses, not as a conclusive argument.
Analogy and ordinary
Analogy of reaction 1c with belite hydration in ordinary Portland cement:
Analogy and language
** Analogy, in language, a comparison between concepts
Analogy and its
* Analogy occurs when a descriptor changes some but not all of its meaning.
Lecture 6: Carbon or Charcoal-Coal Gas Respiration and its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle-Conclusion
Analogy and .
* " Analogy as the Core of Cognition ", in Dedre Gentner, Keith Holyoak, and Boicho Kokinov ( eds.
He wrote four books on the subject: How to Solve It, Mathematical Discovery: On Understanding, Learning, and Teaching Problem Solving ; Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics, and Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume II: Patterns of Plausible Reasoning.
# At the same time as the Protestant Reformation was underway, a new era of biblical criticism began leading to the Analogy of Scripture View.
& Thagard, P., Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought, A Bradford Book, The MIT Press, ( Cambridge ), 1995.
* Leatherdale, W. H., The Role of Analogy, Model and Metaphor in Science, North-Holland Publishing Company, ( Amsterdam ), 1974.
Left ( From top to bottom ): Sun ; Natural things ; Shadows of natural things ; Fire ; Artificial objects ; Shadows of artificial objects ; Analogy level.
Right ( From top to bottom ): " Good " idea, Ideas, Mathematical objects, Light, Creatures and Objects, Image, Metaphor of the sun and the Analogy of the divided line.
Analogy plays a significant role in problem solving, decision making, perception, memory, creativity, emotion, explanation and communication.
Analogy has been studied and discussed since classical antiquity by philosophers, scientists and lawyers.
There he showed an intense interest in metaphysics ; and before he was nine he had read and re-read Jonathan Edwards's Treatise on the Will and Butler's Analogy.
" Butler's Analogy: A Still Interesting Synthesis of Reason and Revelation ," Anglican Theological Review 62 ( October ) pp. 365 – 381.
Analogy between magnetic refrigeration and vapor cycle or conventional refrigeration.
* Joseph Butler ( 1692 – 1752 ), Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Durham, and author of ' The Analogy of Religion ', was born and educated in Wantage.
*" Mathematical Analogy and Metaphorical Insight ", The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol.
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In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.
but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.
But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.
The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.
A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.
But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.
Let me quote him even more fully, for his analysis is important to my theme.
However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.
This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
But in looking at Faulkner against his background in Mississippi and the South, it is important not to lose the broader perspective.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.
However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.
An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.
Clearly what the person brings to the reading is important.
Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.
Here an important caveat is in order.
It is most important that we recognize the law of love as being unbreakable in all personal relationships, whether individually, socially or as between whole nations of people.
This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
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