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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. Analogical change - Wikipedia

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    Analogy plays an important role in child language acquisition.The relationship between language acquisition and language change is well established, [2] and while both adult speakers and children can be innovators of morphophonetic and morphosyntactic change, [3] analogy used in child language acquisition likely forms one major source of analogical change.

  4. Similarity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Arguments from analogy involve inferences from information about a known object (the source) to the features of an unknown object (the target) based on similarity between the two objects. [32] Arguments from analogy have the following form: a is similar to b and a has feature F, therefore b probably also has feature F.

  5. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies - Wikipedia

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    Now Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies presents that model, along with the computer programs Hofstadter and his associates have designed to test it. These programs work in stripped-down yet surprisingly rich microdomains. On April 3, 1995, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies became the first book ordered online by an Amazon.com customer. [3]

  6. Analogia entis - Wikipedia

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    The modern formulation of the analogia entis emphasizes a cognitive rhythm: the double motion in and beyond: . What is meant by analogia entis is precisely this: that in the very same act in which the human being comes to intimate God in the likeness of the creature, he also comes to intimate Him as the one who is beyond all likeness.

  7. Tumultuous - Wikipedia

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    Tumultuous may refer to: Tumultuous Petitioning Act 1661; Tumultuous behavior, a form of disorderly conduct; See also. Tumult (disambiguation)

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  9. Parallelomania - Wikipedia

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    Sandmel stated that the simple observations of similarity between historical events are often less than valid, but at times lead to a phenomenon where an author first notices a supposed similarity, overdoses on analogy, and then "proceeds to describe source and derivation as if implying a literary connection flowing in an inevitable or ...