I'm baffled by the anti-analogies argument whether used against pop culture or historical analogies.
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In a word, apophenia.
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The human mind - all minds I suspect -- is geared towards pattern recognition. Hence analogy-making is inevitable.
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So much for the tolerant historians
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thats not the issue: they promote lazy thought and are often cheap rhetoric
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Any cognitive tool can be used well or badly. An ax can cut a tree or be used for murder.
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this is not about language and cognition
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obviously analogies can be fine and useful, this is a rhetorical issue not about metaphysics
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Ol' Machiavelli's usage of historic analogies dampened them in this same way, contrary to general humanist optimism
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hello Piaget
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"One of these things is not like the other. One of these things, doesn't belong."
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