Question

Critical Thinking

1) Describe two guidelines that can be used to analyze an argument from an analogy.

2) Create your own analogy. Analyze your analogy argument to be weak or strong by identifying the premise-analogue, the conclusion-analogue, the similarities, and the differences.

Answer 1

1) Argument from an analogy: is a special type of inductive argument, the 2 guidelines are strength of an analogy and it include the relevance and the degree and the amount and variety, and the erms of a counterarguments . 2)Own analogy are familiar they express an abstract idea in terms of a familiar one the odometer and speedometer on a care are a good analogy for a functions and its derivates.premise analogue is a sample analgue, the more numerous and diversified the similarities are between the premise analogue and the conclusion analogue the stronger the argumen , the more numerous and diversified the differences between the premise analogue and the conclusion analogue the weaker the argument, if there is more than one premise analogue the more numerous and diversified the premise analogues are the stronger the argument and if there is more than one premise the fewer the contrary premise analogues the stronger the argument and the more contrary premise analogues the weaker the argument.