Sentence examples for analogical arguer from inspiring English sources

But this developed form fails because such a correlation is available to the analogical arguer, viz., one established in one's own case (between one's mental states and behavior).

However, the analogical arguer's own experience is crucial to the analogical inference.

But the roles played by the similarities between ourselves and others and by the analogical arguer's own experience remain crucial in this hybrid analogical/hypothetic inference.

It is not obvious that this model can withstand the analogical arguer's skepticism about how the visual evidence can be supported as, indeed, evidence without bringing in at some stage our own experience.

It is then pointed out that though it is true that all the correlations are with the analogical arguer's own experience, it is often the case that sound inductive inferences proceed from an observational base having common properties (Melnyk 1994, 488).

Do nonhuman animals use analogies and analogical reasoning in ways similar to humans?

Efforts to develop a quasi-logical theory of analogical reasoning, it might be argued, have failed.

In Quodlibet III, q. 1 he attempts to establish the analogical character of being by arguing at some length that it cannot be either univocal or purely equivocal.

A developed form of the objection argues that any acceptable analogical argument must rest on a correlation that has been established independently and that resulting from the impossibility of checking up on the analogical inference's conclusion there can be no such independently established correlation (Ryle 1949, 52).

Since the law must proceed even within a pluralist society such as ours, Sunstein argues, we see that analogical reasoning can go forward on the basis of "incompletely theorized judgments" or of what Rawls calls an "overlapping consensus" (Rawls 1996).

A common way of using this as an objection to evolution is by appealing to the 18th-century philosopher William Paley's watchmaker analogy, which argues that certain natural phenomena are analogical to a watch (in that they are ordered, or complex, or purposeful), which means that, like a watch, they must have been designed by a "watchmaker"—an intelligent agent.