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  2. Analogy - Wikipedia

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    Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share. [1]In logic, it is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction.

  3. Soft independent modelling of class analogies - Wikipedia

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    Soft independent modelling by class analogy (SIMCA) is a statistical method for supervised classification of data. The method requires a training data set consisting of samples (or objects) with a set of attributes and their class membership. The term soft refers to the fact the classifier can identify samples as belonging to multiple classes ...

  4. Classification theorem - Wikipedia

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    A computable complete set of invariants [clarify] (together with which invariants are realizable) solves both the classification problem and the equivalence problem. A canonical form solves the classification problem, and is more data: it not only classifies every class, but provides a distinguished (canonical) element of each class.

  5. Argument from analogy - Wikipedia

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    A false analogy is an informal fallacy, or a faulty instance, of the argument from analogy. An argument from analogy is weakened if it is inadequate in any of the above respects . The term "false analogy" comes from the philosopher John Stuart Mill , who was one of the first individuals to examine analogical reasoning in detail. [ 2 ]

  6. Cladistics - Wikipedia

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    Of course, the potential unreliability of evidence is a problem for any systematic method, or for that matter, for any empirical scientific endeavor at all. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Transformed cladistics arose in the late 1970s [ 37 ] in an attempt to resolve some of these problems by removing a priori assumptions about phylogeny from cladistic analysis ...

  7. Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Many easily stated number problems have solutions that require sophisticated methods, often from across mathematics. A prominent example is Fermat's Last Theorem . This conjecture was stated in 1637 by Pierre de Fermat, but it was proved only in 1994 by Andrew Wiles , who used tools including scheme theory from algebraic geometry , category ...

  8. Figurative analogy - Wikipedia

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    The two things compared in a figurative analogy are not obviously comparable in most respects. [2] Metaphors and similes are two types of figurative analogies. In the course of analogical reasoning, figurative analogies become weak if the disanalogies of the entities being compared are relevant—in the same way that literal analogies become ...

  9. Bradford Hill criteria - Wikipedia

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    Analogy: The use of analogies or similarities between the observed association and any other associations. Some authors [ 3 ] consider, also, Reversibility : If the cause is deleted then the effect should disappear as well.