analogism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "all Judications and Analogisms may faile"
- "Epilogism as opposed to analogism proceeds from what is seen."
- "The inclination toward simplified and/or distorted (but often useful) reasoning in the form of analogism and a propensity to organise events into teleological narratives to which causality is attributed, is of particular interest to this discussion."
- "As the analogism, to be perfect, requires equal extremes in evidence of an equal mean, it is principally applicable to intellectual science and universals, in which these perfect or necessary relations are principally found;"
- "Visible most obviously in the Metaphysical poets, analogism finds in humankind and all creation "the vestiges and signature of their creator" ( 61 ) ."
- "We have an analogism when we draw the conclusion from 1. the fact that object A has properties p and q 2. and the observation that object B has the property p ---- 3. that object B also has property q. Hence, analogism is fundamentally an inference based on categorizations and it may be a relatively parsimonious way for people in ambiguous situations to make sense of what is going on and what to expect in the near future."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀναλογία (analogía) (from ἀνά (aná) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, reckoning”)) + -ism.