PHL137 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thought Experiment, Pareidolia, Great Australian Bight
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Common form of reasoning, conclusion is drawn based on analogy, or similarity, observed between two or more things. The apartment next door is the same size as ours and has a similar outlook, and it sold last week for 000, so we can expect ours to sell for about the same. Malcolm turnbull thought that losing 30 consecutive newspolls was a reason for tony abbott to be replaced as pm. He"s now lost 30 consecutive newspolls too, so he really needs to be considering his own position. We are going to look at analogical reasoning as a kind of inductive argument. Does the argument involve the claim or assumption that two things are similar in some ways. If so, it is an argument from analogy. Ie: the subject and analogue have certain known similarities, the analogue has some additional property(ie. the target property = the property analogically extended)
