Much criticism has been leveled at this rather forced analogy, but what is equally significant is Adams' complete acceptance of the Biblical record as `` good and trustworthy history ''.

One seldom hears the analogy `` nuclear propulsion will do for the aircraft what it has already done for the submarine ''.

This has an interesting analogy with the assumption stated by Philippoff that `` the deformational mechanics of elastic solids can be applied to flowing solutions ''.

By analogy, the church also has been regarded as entirely independent of the `` world '' in the sense of requiring nothing from it in order to be the church.

It has been called the Archimedean honeycombs by analogy with the convex uniform ( non-regular ) polyhedra, commonly called Archimedean solids.

To find out what the precise law is that applies to a particular set of facts, one has to locate precedential decisions on the topic, and reason from those decisions by analogy.

An expanding universe generally has a cosmological horizon which, by analogy with the more familiar horizon caused by the curvature of the Earth's surface, marks the boundary of the part of the universe that an observer can see.

This is in analogy to electrostatics, in which the electric field ( E-field ) has a vanishing curl and the magnetic field ( B-field ) has a vanishing divergence.

Herbert G. Winful argues that the train analogy is a variant of the " reshaping argument " for superluminal tunneling velocities, but he goes on to say that this argument is not actually supported by experiment or simulations, which actually show that the transmitted pulse has the same length and shape as the incident pulse.

The analogy between the Skyrme field and the Higgs field of the electroweak sector has been used to postulate that all fermions are skyrmions.

By analogy, the name hammer has also been used for devices that are designed to deliver blows, e. g. in the caplock mechanism of firearms.

comes from our normalizing constant, which has been chosen so that, by analogy with single-particle wavefunctions,

By analogy a typescript has been produced on a typewriter.

He imposed this notion in a map-territory analogy: " A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a " similar structure " to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

Joseph Sheehan, a prominent researcher in the field, has described stuttering in terms of the well-known analogy to an iceberg, with the immediately visible and audible symptoms of stuttering above the waterline and a broader set of symptoms such as negative emotions hidden below the surface.

The word saw its first scientific use within the field of optics to describe the rainbow of colors in visible light when separated using a prism ; it has since been applied by analogy to many fields other than optics.

At the very end of the text he borrows an analogy from Arthur Schopenhauer, and compares the book to a ladder that must be thrown away after one has climbed it.

The argument from analogy has faced scrutiny from the likes of Norman Malcolm who have issues with the ' one case ' nature of the argument.

It has been reconstructed as Danu, which by analogy with Anu is taken to be a female name.

However, present observations cannot exclude the possibilities that the universe has more dimensions and that its spacetime may have a multiply connected global topology, in analogy with the cylindrical or toroidal topologies of two-dimensional spaces.

To use a macroscopic analogy, an interpretation which rejects CFD views measuring the position as akin to asking where in a room a person is standing, while measuring the momentum is akin to asking if the person's lap is empty or has something on it.

Richard Stallman has described this view with an analogy, saying, " The GPL's domain does not spread by proximity or contact, only by deliberate inclusion of GPL-covered code in your program.

Originally, the clock analogy represented the threat of global nuclear war ; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate-changing technologies and " new developments in the life sciences that could inflict irrevocable harm.

# Once a theoretical model has been established, it is often modified to explain contradictory data so that it may no longer represent the analogy on which is was based.

Early structural models for GPCRs were based on their weak analogy to bacteriorhodopsin, for which a structure had been determined by both electron diffraction (, ) and X ray-based crystallography ().

Members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science had been complaining about the lack of a good term at recent meetings, Whewell reported in his review ; alluding to himself, he noted that " some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form word scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this term since we already have such words as economist, and atheist — but this was not generally palatable ".

: Henrietta Stackpole was struck with the fact that ancient Rome had been paved a good deal like New York, and even found an analogy between the deep chariot-ruts traceable in the antique street and the overjangled iron grooves which express the intensity of American life.

Having been given birth as a species, man must grow to maturity by analogy with individual men.

The hydraulic analogy to Ohm's law has been used, for example, to approximate blood flow through the circulatory system.

However, it demonstrates a powerful and general technique that has since been used in a wide range of proofs, also known as diagonal arguments by analogy with the argument used in this proof.

Many scholars have suggested a possible analogy with the story of Isaac's attempted sacrifice by his father Abraham in the Bible, which was also stopped at the last minute ( though it had first been encouraged ) by divine intervention.

The same principle has been given as an analogy to software developed in an evolutionary sense by group collaboration, as opposed to software built to a pre-ordained design that was created without reference to previous implementation.

By analogy, Dea Matrona may conceivably have been the mother of the Gaulish Maponos.

A prominent computing scientist, E. W. Dijkstra, wrote in a paper that the coining of the term software engineer was not useful since it was an inappropriate analogy, " The existence of the mere term has been the base of a number of extremely shallow — and false — analogies, which just confuse the issue ... Computers are such exceptional gadgets that there is good reason to assume that most analogies with other disciplines are too shallow to be of any positive value, are even so shallow that they are only confusing.

Although no rain gauge has ever been placed on any Porongurup peak, by analogy with the Otway Ranges in Victoria, it would be expected that the Porongurup summits would probably be the wettest place in Western Australia, with annual rainfalls conjectured to average around 1, 600 mm ( 64 inches ), with as much as 250 to 275 mm ( 10 to 11 inches ) per month between May and August probable.

It has been argued that analogy is " the core of cognition ".

In the ' 90s, various approaches in cognitive science that dealt with metaphor, analogy and structure mapping have been converging, and a new integrative approach to the study of creativity in science, art and humor has emerged under the label conceptual blending.

For example, empirical support has been obtained using analogy problem solving experiments for the proposal that midway through the creative process one's mind is in a potentiality state.

However, some have taken the feudalism analogy further, seeing it in places as diverse as ancient Egypt, the Parthian empire, the Indian subcontinent, and the antebellum American South.

A common analogy involves the way that a dip in a flat sheet of rubber, caused by a heavy object sitting on it, influences the path taken by small objects rolling nearby, causing them to deviate inward from the path they would have followed had the heavy object been absent.

Campbell was taken by the analogy between the two situations, famously referring to the London pornography trade as " a sale of poison more deadly than prussic acid, strychnine or arsenic ".

Campbell was taken by the analogy between the two situations, famously referring to the London pornography trade as " a sale of poison more deadly than prussic acid, strychnine or arsenic ", and proposed a bill to restrict the sale of pornography ; giving statutory powers of destruction would allow for a much more effective degree of prosecution.

To emphasize that each type of cell by itself did not actually see color but was simply more or less stimulated, he drew an analogy to black-and-white photography: if three colorless photographs of the same scene were taken through red, green and blue filters, and transparencies (" slides ") made from them were projected through the same filters and superimposed on a screen, the result would be an image reproducing not only red, green and blue, but all of the colors in the original scene.

The analogy with electric dipoles should not be taken too far because magnetic dipoles are associated with angular momentum ( see Magnetic moment and angular momentum ).

Put differently, urelements are minimal objects while proper classes are maximal objects by the membership relation ( which, of course, is not an order relation, so this analogy is not to be taken literally.

Since economic phenomena are the result of the interaction among many heterogeneous agents, there is an analogy with statistical mechanics, where many particles interact ; but it must be taken into account that the properties of human beings and particles significantly differ.

However, some have taken the feudalism analogy further, seeing it in places as diverse as Ancient Egypt, Parthian empire, India, to the American South of the nineteenth century.

18 can not be taken literally ( as the Rabbinites take it ), for the wife's sister is forbidden under any circumstance, just as is the husband's brother ( there is here an example of the method of analogy, " heqqesh "); it is rather the stepsister of the wife that is meant in the passage in question ; e. g., the daughter of the father-in-law's wife whom the last named had by her first husband.

An alternative name for this phenomenon is " bunker mentality ", a phrase used in analogy to soldiers that have taken shelter in a bunker while under siege from enemies.

Campbell was taken by the analogy between the two situations, famously referring to the London pornography trade as " a sale of poison more deadly than prussic acid, strychnine or arsenic ", and proposed a bill to restrict the sale of pornography, arguing that giving statutory powers of destruction would allow for a much more effective degree of prosecution.

The most typical form which the Jesse Tree takes is to show the figure of Jesse, often larger than all the rest, reclining or sleeping ( perhaps by analogy to Adam when his rib was taken ) at the foot of the pictorial space.

This is taken to be an important analogy for social cooperation.

The terminology of the U. S. Mafia is taken from that of the Sicilian Mafia and suggests that an analogy is intended to imitate the court of a medieval Italian principality.

Regardless, by analogy with more conventionally ergative languages, the-up ,-k ,-it endings described above are often called ergative suffixes which are taken to be indicative of the ergative case, while the-mik ,-rnik ,-nik endings ( see Non-specific verbs-Objects ) are called accusative.