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Sentence count:177+11Posted:2016-11-07Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: doctrine of analogySimilar words: apologygeologybiologytheologyideologypsychologydendrologytechnologyMeaning: [ə'nælədʒɪ]  n. 1. an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others 2. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect 3. the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate. 
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(61) I was misled partly by the analogy with the surface of the earth.
(62) He sees that Shakespeare discovered how he might use analogy and metaphor as themost acute representation of a mind engaged in thought.
(63) Norma drew an analogy between childbirth and the creative process.
(64) I find this an illuminating analogy of the real purpose of prayer.
(65) Pattern practice makes grammatical explanations superfluous and encourages learning by analogy.
(66) The speech is a good example of formal rhetorical argument by analogy rather than logic.
(67) The effectiveness of the micro in simulating experiments hinges on the children's accepting the analogy with the true experimental situation.
(68) There is an analogy here with ships in wartime, which sail in convoys to reduce the numbers lost to submarines.
(69) By analogy, the same principle could apply to other insiders, such as merchant bankers, who misuse confidential news.
(70) A third way of dealing with a topic indirectly, perhaps the most difficult to handle, is to use analogy.
(71) The analogy is now the addition of a thermometer in the water in the kettle with its dial visible to the operator.
(72) I have suggested that singing is a good analogy for the discovery and use of the light principle.
(73) An analogy with the film industry, or treatment as an entirely distinct medium requiring its own organization, was inappropriate.
(74) Let us pursue the analogy between memes and genes further.
(75) A close analogy with the art of singing can be made here.
(76) Oresme even drew an analogy with what would happen on a moving ship[sentencedict.com], as Galileo was later to do.
(77) He then uses this analogy with the sentence to describe the trajectory by which the subject constitutes itself through the other.
(78) To explain it, Eliot gave the analogy of a catalyst in a chemical reaction.
(79) The analogy was well meant, but did not altogether please him.
(80) This problem is sometimes called moral hazard, by analogy with insurance where the phenomenon is well known.
(81) In fact a good analogy may be made with human relationships.
(82) The analogy has its limitations, but is a valuable starting point.
(83) All that could be done was to work by analogy.
(84) Here we may draw an analogy between geriatrics and paediatrics, another age-based medical specialism.
(85) There must, we think, be some argument from analogy to provide a way round scepticism.
(86) I used the analogy of a family that goes from rags to riches and back to rags in three or four generations.
(87) To return to the analogy of the lawn sprinkler and the rainstorm,[http://sentencedict.com/analogy.html] both can explain how the driveway got wet.
(88) The Hobbesian analogy is considered to be partial and gender-biased.
(89) The analogy between the diseases of the human body and those to which the horse is liable is very great.
(90) The argument rests on an analogy with the right of conscientious objection which is supported by Dworkin.
More similar words: apologygeologybiologytheologyideologypsychologydendrologytechnologycatalogdialogueepistemologyanalyzeanalystanalyseanalysesanalysisanalyzingbananapedagogylogalonealoudalongmanagea lot ofdeal outlet alonenirvanamanacleanarchy
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