In Norton's broad sense, however, 'material analogy' simply refers to similarities rooted in factual knowledge of the source and target domains.
Engaging on a factual level about the roots of gun violence in America is a losing game for conservatives, so the only course of action is to vacillate between pompous rhetoric about the Second Amendment and slandering anyone who might disagree.
They may be based on very current fears and rooted in factual possibility, but they are fantasy.
Related | Katherine Bouton's essay "In Lab Lit, Fiction Meets Science of the Real World" describes several examples of fictional literature that is strongly rooted in factual science.
The agencies say they let clients see their reports before they are published, but only to root out factual errors or non-public information.The biggest concern is structured finance, where the agencies now depend on a few large investment banks for much of their revenue.
(If you deconstruct his rationale, Santorum seems to think that guys will act as stoic enemy-killers in an all-male environment because men don't have emotions unless they are around females. PTSD, anyone?) Santorum's statements don't just insult servicemen, as well as service women; they are also rooted in factual error.
#5) Aurora City Council members that support the law have acknowledged that the law isn't about improved public safety and is not rooted in factual information.
But the resistance toward Mr. Obama appears to be rooted in something more than factual misperception; even those with an accurate understanding of Mr. Obama share the hesitations.
Over half of the interview participants expressed such difficulty, even those who "fully accept" evolution as "scientifically factual" and "definitely true," and whether the "difficulty" is rooted in religion or merely in emotional "discomfort".
Grieve said the "root of the problem" was that a further factual statement from the pathologist first appointed "entirely undermined the basis on which any further expert view could be taken of the case by other pathologists".
