Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In logic, an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument.
  • noun Investigation of things by their analogies; reasoning from analogy.
  • noun In medicine, diagnosis by analogy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Logic) an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument.
  • noun Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun logic An argument from cause to effect; an a priori argument.
  • noun investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek ἀναλογία (analogia) (from ἀνά (ana) + λόγος (logos, "speech, reckoning")) + -ism.

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Examples

  • Under "analogism", all beings are different, disparate and separate.

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  • Under "analogism", all beings are different, disparate and separate.

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  • That last example of course occurrs in some other context but can, by way of analogism, easily be transferred on some other, more abstract, level, which is a thing that is always nice to be playing with.

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  • His theory is that there are four ways in which various cultures portray reality in paintings, sculpture and other objects: animism, totemism, analogism and naturalism.

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  • His theory is that there are four ways in which various cultures portray reality in paintings, sculpture and other objects: animism, totemism, analogism and naturalism.

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