The Point of Resemblance: Single, Multiple and Composite Forms

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• What determines whether the point of resemblance is single or composite?
• What is the structure of the point in “A scholar resembles his teacher in learning and forbearance”?
• What chiefly separates a composite point from independent multiple points?
• When two visible people are compared for courage, what kind of point is courage?
• How should “the intellectual point is broader than the sensory point” be understood?
• Why do both terms not have to be composite when the sensory point is composite?
• What is central to the Pleiades–cluster composite?
• What is the relevant similarity in the dust-and-swords / night-and-stars image?
• Why might naming one property fail to explain an elaborate simile?
• How should the anemone and ruby-banner comparison be analysed?
• Which feature of motion can be crucial in a sensory composite?
• Why is “both shine” inadequate for the trembling-mirror image?
• What does the opening-and-closing manuscript image illustrate?
• What forms the point in a composite posture of still limbs?
• Why is deprivation of benefit treated as an intellectual composite?
• Which reading best captures the Quranic books-and-donkey analogy?
• What is omitted if only “carrying a load” is extracted from the analogy?
• What situation is evoked by lightning before thirsty people?
• What should be done first when abstracting a complex point?
• Which test best distinguishes composite from multiple resemblance?
• Which is a single sensory point?
• Which best exemplifies a sensory composite?
• Which is multiple intellectual qualities rather than one intellectual composite?
• Why does having composite terms not require a composite point?
• Which is the sound classification procedure?
• If both terms are single entities, their point can never be composite.
• An intellectual point can relate two sensible objects.
• Several movements always form a composite point even if unrelated.
• The Quranic books-and-donkey example must distinguish physical carrying from intellectual non-benefit.
• Resemblance in redness, fragrance and sweetness necessarily has only one sensory point.