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Analogy
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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1997
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Analogy. A proportional similarity. Most theological discussion of analogy has been concerned with analogical predication, a mode of predication in which terms familiar in one context are used in an extended sense elsewhere. Thus it is claimed that terms like ‘love’, ‘wisdom’, and ‘living’, which are learnt in everyday contexts, are applied to God by analogy because of some relationship (e.g. likeness, exemplarity, participation, and causation) between God's perfections and these human attributes.
According to Thomas
Aquinas, such a mode of predication is midway between univocity and equivocation (
Summa Theologiae, 1a, xiii. 5). Terms like ‘family resemblance’, ‘open texture’, and ‘systematic equivocation’, used in 20th-cent. analytic philosophy, may be regarded as akin to analogy. See also
TANZĪH;
NYĀYA (for
upamana).
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Analogies and the 5E Model.
Magazine article from: The Science Teacher; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...understandable by using an analogy. Science classes are...everyday experiences. Analogies can be useful instructional...familiar language used in analogies than to unfamiliar...scientific" terminology. Analogies in the engage phase...colleagues uses a visual analogy to explain compounds...
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Analogy? There's just no comparison: SAT drops that infuriating section of test.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 8/4/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...contends that "the analogy is the only area...replacing the analogies with short reading...being in favor of analogies. I and other analogy-philes are classified...of us who favor analogies." Since Mills...expression. The analogy has a long history...
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ANALOGY: VHDL-AMS standardisation boosts Analogy's TheHDL strategy.
M2 Presswire; 4/5/1999; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-5 April 1999-ANALOGY: VHDL-AMS standardisation boosts Analogy's TheHDL strategy (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:050499 Analogy, Inc.'s TheHDL open simulation strategy received a significant boost from the...
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Analogy: an inspirational work of art.(A View from the Chamber)
Magazine article from: Wenatchee Business Journal; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...in my office, I see that it defines an analogy as: "Correspondence in some respects...things otherwise dissimilar." For me, an analogy has a much simpler definition: A very useful tool. The analogy is a communication tool every businessperson...
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Using analogies in elementary science.(Perspectives: Research and tips to support science education)
Magazine article from: Science and Children; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...received no analogies in instruction...groups did. One analogy group learned a water flow analogy for electric...learned additional analogies for electricity...spontaneously made analogies during a unit...defending his analogy, was able to...
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Analogy Expands Mixed Signal Model Portfolio.
Business Wire; 8/7/1997; 700+ words
; ...signal, mixed-technology modeling, Analogy Inc. today announced significant enhancements to its model library portfolio. Analogy has developed three new component libraries...library expansion substantially increase Analogy's design coverage and broaden the horizon...
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Using Analogies to Improve Elementary School Students' Inferential Reasoning About Scientific Concepts.
Magazine article from: School Science and Mathematics; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...using instructional analogies. Each analogy explicitly compared...texts not containing analogies. Students were asked...teachers often use analogies when explaining scientific...Dagher, 1995). An analogy is formed between two...
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Using Medical Analogies to Convey Complex Ideas.
Magazine article from: Family Practice News; 2/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...understandable language. Analogies represent another...teaching tool. An analogy can be used to draw...Studies of the use of analogy in many scientific...indicate that analogies increase comprehension...should be weaned from analogies as their understanding grows. "An analogy is a ...
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ANALOGY FILES SUIT AGAINST ANACAD, MENTOR GRAPHICS IN GROUNDBREAKING SOFTWARE PATENT CASE
PR Newswire; 3/24/1993; 700+ words
; ...Ore., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Analogy Inc. today announced it has filed suit...United States, has violated one or more of Analogy's five U.S. patents. Because Beaverton...States, it too is believed to infringe on Analogy's patents. Analogy's patents address...
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Analogy And University of Hong Kong Turn The Key on Electric Vehicle Design and Development
PR Newswire; 2/20/1997; 700+ words
; ...thanks to the University of Hong Kong and Analogy, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANLG), a leader in...commercially viable electronic vehicles," Analogy is supporting the Center's research...R) hardware description language. Analogy's Saber(R) and SaberDesigner(TM...
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ANALOGY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...users may forget the analogy and come to think...but flow? Because analogies depend on the concept...constantly make such analogies, both on their...engage in false analogy . Here, the child...constraints. This kind of analogy is fundamental to...words. Rhetoric Analogies are ...
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analogy
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
analogy Analogies, much employed in the Bible, are a...use of parallel cases, and ‘analogy’ is therefore an umbrella...cloud . So Paul applies this belief by analogy to Christ as the rock who gives life...
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Analogy
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
ANALOGY The inference that two or more things that...are also similar in other respects. An analogy denotes that similarity exists in some...otherwise not alike. In a legal argument, an analogy may be used when there is no precedent...
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organic analogy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
organic analogy (or biological analogy ) Used by Émile Durkheim specifically to bring out the...he did not extrapolate this beyond the reasonable limits of an analogy. The same distinction between analogy and reality was less clearly...
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The Munich Analogy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
The Munich Analogy Joseph M. Siracusa At the Munich Conference of 1938, France and England...Conference has permeated the American political world ever since. The Munich analogy has not only been used consistently in American presidential and governmental...
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