LessonsAnalogy: Original and New Cases, Common Cause, Co-variation and EliminationQuiz

Induction: examining a number of individuals and proposing a general judgment about their class.
Analogy: extending a known judgment from one individual to another on the basis of a relevant common feature.

Examining the leaves of many trees and inferring a pattern for the entire species is induction. Suspecting the same disease in another tree because it shares a particular symptom with a diagnosed tree is analogy.

Both need testing, but their direction of inference differs: particulars to a universal versus particular to particular.

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Analogy versus induction

Analogy: Original and New Cases, Common Cause, Co-variation and Elimination

Induction: examining a number of individuals and proposing a general judgment about their class.
Analogy: extending a known judgment from one individual to another on the basis of a relevant common feature.

Examining the leaves of many trees and inferring a pattern for the entire species is induction. Suspecting the same disease in another tree because it shares a particular symptom with a diagnosed tree is analogy.

Both need testing, but their direction of inference differs: particulars to a universal versus particular to particular.