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Analogy

Analogy: Things are analogous insofar as they are similar. Arguments from analogy and scientific discoveries from analogies are therefore arguments and discoveries based on similarities.

Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11.