Howard Johnson
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

This seems to me to be a backdoor into something like logical positivism, based mainly on what I perceive as a desire to denigrate analogy. I thinking from a Peircian style pragmatism expressed like this by Sowa and Majumdar (2003):

Logical and analogical reasoning are sometimes viewed as mutually exclusive alternatives, but formal logic is actually a highly constrained and stylized method of using analogies. Before any subject can be formalized to the stage where logic can be applied to it, analogies must be used to derive an abstract representation from a mass of irrelevant detail. After the formalization is complete, every logical step — of deduction, induction, or abduction — involves the application of some version of analogy.

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