Concept tag
#analogy
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A door-maker reads Hume’s Dialogues: the design argument from the workshop
This one comes from the workshop. I have been reading Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in a French translation, because people kept telling me the design argument is about things like what I make. The argument says: the world is like a…
Started by Hicham Ouazzani5 replies -
Qiyās, kal va-chomer and legal analogy: defeasible reasoning with centuries of rules
The reasoning I heard most often from the bench, in all my years in court, was neither deduction nor statistics. It was analogy: this case resembles that one in the respect that matters, so it should be decided the same way. Islamic…
Started by Khalid Mahmood Awan5 replies