After learning about the many types of reasoning, a concept from chapter 12 I found interesting is judging analogies. There are seven questions to help evaluate an analogy. These considerations clearly matter in determining the relative strength or weakness of an analogy. These questions are:
1. Is this an argument? What is the conclusion?
2. What is the comparison?
3. What are the premises? (one both sides of the comparison)
4. What are the similarities?
5. Can we state the similarities as premises and find a general principle that covers the two sides.
6. Does the general principle really apple to both sides? Do the differences matter?
7. is the argument strong or valid? Is it good?
If you are able to apply these questions to the analogy you will successfully be able to evaluate the analogy. This was very useful because I can use this to evaluate an analogy each time.
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