analogy
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From Latin analogia from Ancient Greek ἀναλογία (analogia) from ἀνά (ana) + λόγος (logos), “‘speech, reckoning’”)
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analogy (plural analogies)
- The use of a similar example or model to explain or extrapolate from.
- The birthing class instructor used a balloon and a ping-pong ball as an analogy for the baby in the womb.
- Many use the Gospels' analogy of a mustard seed growing into a huge plant to explain faith.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- Words and things were united in their resemblance. Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. There were four ranges of resemblance.
Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
Convenientia connected things near to one another, e.g. animal and plant, making a great “chain” of being.
Analogy: a wider range based less on likeness than on similar relations.
Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
- Words and things were united in their resemblance. Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. There were four ranges of resemblance.
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similar example as explanation