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Order the steps: judge an analogy

Exercise and reference answers

Steps
  1. Identify the two things being compared
  2. Name the respects in which they genuinely resemble each other
  3. Name the conclusion the analogy wants you to draw
  4. Ask whether the resemblance is relevant to that conclusion
  5. Weigh the differences that would break the comparison

Explanation

Name the resemblance, then ask whether it bears on the conclusion. Source: Logic: Deductive and Inductive, Carveth Read (1898), public domain.
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