The phrase "analogous to something" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing two things that are similar in some way, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The structure of the atom is analogous to a solar system, with electrons orbiting the nucleus like planets around the sun."
Alternatives: "similar to" or "comparable to".
Whereas knowing in the sense of recognition is analogous to seeing something, knowledge or understanding in the sense explained here is analogous to being clear-sighted.
In his sketchy account of the process of thinking in De anima (On the Soul), Aristotle says that the intellect, like everything else, must have two parts: something analogous to matter and something analogous to form.
The other thing that I tell my friends a good deal, particularly talking about novelty, which is a direction we might go, is that until we get something analogous to Mendel (1866), something analogous to understanding the combinatorics of novelty, we'll just talk about combinatorics but we won't really get a grip on them.
In "Humanism and Democratic Criticism," Edward Said argued for the necessity of a "return to philology" in literary criticism, but in this case, I would argue for an analogous return to something else: counterpoint.
The music is fittingly berserk, lurching from something vaguely analogous to electronic chart pop to something vaguely analogous to South Africa's shangaan electro.
Thus, it isn‟t a fourth substance; nor is it a fourth divine person, as it isn't, like each of the three, a form- quasi- matter compound, but only something analogous to a lump oform- quasi- matter which constitutes each oform- quasi- matter09, 420; Rea 2011, secompound.
So the program of analysis at which Wittgenstein gestures, in addition to committing him to something analogous to Russell's theory of descriptions, also commits him to the analogue of Russell's "description theory of ordinary names" (cf. Russell 1905a).
