analogical
IPA: ænʌɫˈɑdʒɪkʌɫ
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an analogy.
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Examples of "analogical" in Sentences
- These "analogical" processes are at the heart of scientific exploration.
- Second, it has a certain analogical strength (particularly upon first impression).
- If this is a Schiavo thing, it’s lacking in analogical power, but I’ll leave it at that.
- He submitted, in a low voice across the table to Bishop, that it was a kind of analogical illustration of those physical laws, in virtue of which Like flies to
- The secret at the heart of all things is gift; and the purpose of God in so giving a share in his action, an 'analogical' echo of his own life, is that what is not God may be suffused with God's joy.
- It is evident that as a note may be interpolated between any two of the scale, for reach or variety, and called, _e. g._ [sharp] - F or [flat -] G, so a half tint between green and blue is a kind of analogical [sharp] green or [flat] blue.
- The difference is, that in the case of a complete induction it has been previously shown, by due comparison of instances, that there is an invariable conjunction between the former property or properties and the latter property; but in what is called analogical reasoning, no such conjunction has been made out.
- The discovery of Uranus, at a distance falling but slightly short of perfect conformity with the law of Titius, lent weight to a seemingly hazardous prediction, and Von Zach was actually at the pains, in 1785, to calculate what he termed "analogical" elements [200] for this unseen and (by any effect or influence) _unfelt_ body.
- Hence though they are liable to surprise, when their passing trains of ideas are dissevered by violent stimuli; yet are they not affected with wonder or astonishment at the novelty of objects; as they possess but in a very inferior degree, that voluntary power of comparing the present ideas with those previously acquired, which distinguishes mankind; and is termed analogical reasoning, when deliberatively exerted; and intuitive analogy, when used without our attention to it, and which always preserves our hourly trains of ideas consistent with truth and nature.
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