Listened 2 @SamHarrisOrg pod w @ScottAdamsSays
Adams uses many analogies (including the convo-framing analogy of 2 groups in 1 theater seeing 2 diff movies on screen)—yet decries analogies (analogy in principle,not a specific analogy) whenever Sam uses 1 to illustrate a point 
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I am unpersuaded by your gun store analogy. But I’m open to a better one (one that does a better job of explaining and/or persuading)!

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I suspect Scott demonstrated something to you about analogies with something that looked like an analogy but actually wasn’t (well it was but in that context it’s also the real thing) Can you provide a specific exemple of an analogy that persuaded?
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The tension stems from my viewing explanations as being possibly persuasive (im not saying explanation is the only form of persuasion). So if analogy can be used to explain, & explanations can persuade, I dont see how an explanation/persuasion dichotomy holds w respect 2 analogy
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...Through that lens, one might say that analogies are strictly explanatory tools —but that wouldn’t make analogies unpersuasive, bc explanations can be persuasive.
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