The absence of analogy.(Critical Essay)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: Deely, John | Copyright information

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SUPPOSE AN INQUIRER WERE TO ASK what analogy might best be taken to signify. The new standard reference work for philosophy as an intellectual discipline today, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by Edward Craig and published in 1998, is all but silent on the question proposed. Volume I of the ten volume work runs from "Aposteriori" to "Bradwardine," but, on page 211, there is no entry titled "analogy." Even the entry for "Analogies in Science" is no more...

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