Cris Carter

If the building is on fire and the person decides to stay in there, I don't run in there and get him out. If you see them breaking the glass, if you see them struggling and trying to get out - that's my analogy of how I help out the guys in the league and the kids that really, really need help.

American Athlete

John Romero

The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.

American Inventor

Woody Norris

I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?

Rick Tumlinson

Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.

American Businessman

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

French Artist

Charles Kennedy

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

British Politician

Hal Sparks

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

American Actor

Philip Emeagwali

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Nigerian Scientist

Muhammad Iqbal

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Pakistani Poet

Aaron Allston

American Novelist

Analogy is common in everyday language to illustrate ideas.

Widely Used

Use an analogy when you want someone to grasp a complex idea by relating it to something familiar.

Illustrative Purpose

Analogies help clarify abstract or challenging concepts by connecting them to known experiences.

Enhances Understanding

In scholarly contexts, an analogy is used to explain theories by comparing them with common situations.

Academic Writing

Think critically about analogies in academic texts; they must truly reflect the similarity they claim.

Careful Analysis

Analogies can be misinterpreted. Make sure your audience understands the intended similarities.

Potential Misunderstandings

Philosophy often employs analogies to explore and compare ideas that are otherwise abstract.

Philosophical Tools

Use analogies in philosophy to support or challenge arguments by drawing parallels to other situations.

Argumentation Support

In philosophical discussions, be cautious with analogies, as they can sometimes mislead or oversimplify.

Reasoning with Caution

 Others think that it has more of a social role, that it's used to bind the group. Similarly, we use the analogy of sports and athleticism to create new algorithms for machines to push them to their limits. What impact will the speed of machines have on our way of life? Like all our past creations and innovations,

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 was something similar to the pixel analogy I saw a shape that was forever getting smoother and smoother and smoother as you sliced it into smaller slices and it would forever approach a circle but never reach it or when he would talk about square roots or exponents for instance eight to the

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 to protect ourselves from each other, and that inherently weakens the organization. When we feel safe inside the organization, we will naturally combine our talents and our strengths and work tirelessly to face the dangers outside and seize the opportunities. The closest analogy I can give

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 Depending on how strong it is, maybe structure forms faster or slower. Well, the problem with the large-scale structure of the universe is that it's horribly complicated. Here is a computer simulation. And we need a way to simplify it. Well, I like to think about this using an analogy.

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 let's make sure we're on the same page, let me give you this analogy. Think about a presidential election as a baseball game. The end of the ninth inning, whoever is ahead wins, whoever is behind loses. That's baseball. But could you imagine a different world in which, in baseball,

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 And finally, you can demonstrate disinterest, or that you're not motivated by personal gain. Logos is the use of logic and reason. This method can employ rhetorical devices such as analogies, examples, and citations of research or statistics. But it's not just facts and figures.

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 It is physics. You know, the sort of first principles reasoning. Generally I think there are -- what I mean by that is, boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy. Through most of our life, we get through life

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 So, for instance, if it's really wrong to lie, it must always be wrong to lie, and if you can find an exception, well then there's no such thing as moral truth. Why would we think this? Consider, by analogy, the game of chess. Now, if you're going to play good chess,

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 And this is an analogy for today's construction and manufacturing world with brute-force assembly techniques. And this is exactly why I started studying how to program physical materials to build themselves. But there is another world.

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 It reminds me-- this is an obscure analogy. But it reminds me of when medicine became modern, it did so because, in part, it looked to see what sort of folk remedies existed around the world in cultures.

Analogy

A comparison between two things to show how they are alike.

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A relation of resemblance between two things.

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Logic-based reasoning from one similar case to another.

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