PHL 214 Lecture 16: Critical Thinking
18 Jan 2019
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Analogical reasoning- using analogies to argue inductively for a conclusion: an analogy is a comparison of two or more things that are alike in specific ways, sometimes analogies are just poetic, love is like chocolate. Therefore, thing b likely has property 4: humans can move, do math and fall in love. So, like in vietnam, the us will lose the war in iraq: still inconclusive but it"s much stronger because there are more points of comparison. When b, a member of the n party, moved to the q party, the public criticized him. And when c from the q party switched over to the m party, he was criticized too. In science, a purely analogical argument would not be taken very seriously investigation: the human mind is very good at noting similarities between supposedly different things, and many fruitful scientific investigations have started from an analogy.
