Sentence examples for weak analogy from inspiring English sources

that they may simply reflect a weak analogy or metaphor, rather than representing thermodynamic limits in a physical sense.

But the distinction between jus ad bellum and jus in bello is not hard to understand even by a weak analogy: while it is a crime for someone to throw a rock through my window, that does not justify my spraying the street with automatic weapons fire.

Your arguments will seem like weak analogies.

Instead, we used untested inferences, had patchy and contradictory animal data, relied on weak clinical analogies and were enticed by the phenotype association fallacy.

ROMK's function allows continued NaCl reabsorption by the TAL apical membrane bumetanide receptor, NKCC2/SLC12A1 (for which cesium is not likely a substrate but instead a weak inhibitor, by analogy with its effects on the homologous SLC12 potassium-chloride cotransporters) [ 21].

Here are a few: Nagel's two-term relation account has been modified by weaker conditions of analogy and conventions, requiring it to be satisfied not necessarily by the two original theories, T1 and T2, which are respectively new and old and more and less general, but by the modified theories T1′ and T2′.

He has sometimes been compared, in his sport, to Jackie Robinson in baseball, but the analogy is weak and foreshortens the story.

This analogy seems weak on several fronts.

For this reason, Hartshorne says that Whitehead rejected the analogy for "weak reasons" (Hahn 1991, 642).

The problem, then, is not just that the analogy is weak; the real problem is that it attempts to take us beyond what we can know.

The prevalence of this symptom and the weak association are in analogy with that found in previous studies [ 7].