Re: SUO: Re: Analogy
Jon,
Yes, Aristotle was right. See the paper.
>Not really. Aristotle, who CM tells me was a really smart guy,
>analyzed analogy as a mixed syllogism of induction and deduction.
And so was Peirce. See the paper.
>Peirce, who I figured out for myself was a really smart guy, gave
>the same analysis initially, then later followed it up with two
>different analyses of analogy, each of which involved all three
>of what he considered the primitive modes of inference, namely,
>abduction, deduction, and induction.
Peirce was using the term "diagrammatic reasoning" for what
Dedre Gentner and others used the term "structure mapping".
We all agree that Peirce was right, but you have to be careful
in mapping the synsets.
And Peirce used the term "analogy" for what the paper calls
"analogical reasoning".
John