Tap every feature that STRENGTHENS an analogy
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Items
- Text
- The shared respects bear on the conclusion
- Matches the category
- Yes
- Text
- Many relevant respects are shared
- Matches the category
- Yes
- Text
- Known differences are few
- Matches the category
- Yes
- Text
- The two things merely share a name
- Matches the category
- No
- Text
- The resemblance is in an irrelevant respect
- Matches the category
- No
- Category
- Strengthens an analogy
Explanation
Relevance and number of shared respects strengthen it
irrelevant likeness does not. Source: Logic: Deductive and Inductive, Carveth Read (1898), public domain.