| Noah Webster, William Greenleaf Webster, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1878 - 606 páginas
...correspondent, [to ноте other thing. л >' v 1,14,1 r, n. A thing analogous A-NAL'oi'JY, n. 1. Likeness between things In some circumstances or effects,...when the things are otherwise entirely different. 2. Kquallty, proportion, or similarity of ratios. A-NAL'YSÏS, п.,- pi. A-NXL'YaÊg. [Gr. <¡rr.\i... | |
| Alexander Cruden - 1879 - 1186 páginas
...let us try to understand clearly what analogy is, and what the term means. Analogy may be denned as an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects when the things themselves are otherwise entirely different; and, to reduce the definition to its simplest proportions,... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 414 páginas
...look at, and is here used to express rules or principles upon which the science is based, 'analogy, an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances...when the things are otherwise entirely different. 1 impetuously, hastily ; passionately ; violently ; in an impetuous manner. The word is derived from... | |
| John Ogilvie - 1882 - 724 páginas
...flight. Analogy (an-al'o-ii), n. [Or. analogia,~ana. according to, and logos, ratio, proportion.) 1. An agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances...when the things are otherwise entirely different; thus, when we say that learning enlightens the mind, we recognize an analoay between learning aud light,... | |
| 1882 - 940 páginas
...illustrating the points in hand." Most people (I do not say all) understand by the word " analogy " " an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances...when the things are otherwise entirely different." Now, the " point iuhand," to which he must refer, is found on page 267, which, to put it briefly, is... | |
| 1882 - 304 páginas
...let us try to understand clearly what analogy is, and what the term means. Analogy may be denned as an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects when the things themselves are otherwise entirely different ; and, to reduce the definition to its simplest proportions,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1882 - 722 páginas
...deduced from the comparison, must result from the recognition of the likeness or unlikeness of relations. Again, we have the word analogy, applied alike to proportional reasoning in mathematies and to the presumptive reasoning of daily life. The meaning of analogy is, " an agreement... | |
| John Ogilvie - 1883 - 734 páginas
...Uight Analogy (an-aTo-ji), n. [Or. analogia — ana, according to, and logos, ratio, proportion.] 1. An agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances...when the things are otherwise entirely different; thus, when we say that learning enlighten* the mind, we recognize an analogy between learning and light,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 776 páginas
...deduced from the comparison, must result from the recognition of the likeness or unlikeness of relations. Again, we have the word analogy, applied alike to...things in some circumstances or effects, when the tilings are otherwise entirely different ; " and in mathematics, an analogy is " an agreement or likeness... | |
| Alfred Hezekiah Garlick - 1896 - 360 páginas
...the former set of properties. (c) Therefore Venus is inhabited." B. Analogy. — By analogy we mean an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances...or effects when the things are otherwise entirely ditterent ; eg , when we say that learning enlighten* the mind, we recognise an analogy between learning... | |
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