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    1. What’s in a name‏ @Heterodoxy85 14 Jun 2019

      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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    2. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 14 Jun 2019
      Replying to @Heterodoxy85 @SamHarrisOrg

      You are half right. I say (often) analogies are great for explaining a new concept (e.g. two movies) but worthless for persuading (e.g. Bob is like Hitler).

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    3. What’s in a name‏ @Heterodoxy85 14 Jun 2019
      Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @SamHarrisOrg

      I believe the latter is a simile not an analogy-but that’s pedantic I disagree w you more on 2 fronts: 1. In the podcast it seemed you rejected Sam’s use of analogy to explain new concepts 2. Ive personally been persuaded by analogies that connect concepts that weren’t new to me

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    4. Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 14 Jun 2019
      Replying to @Heterodoxy85 @SamHarrisOrg

      If the analogy explained something new, it was probably the something new that was persuasive.

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    5. What’s in a name‏ @Heterodoxy85 14 Jun 2019
      Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @SamHarrisOrg

      The entire point of an analogy is to connect & clarify relationships b/w concepts. By that logic, an analogy can always explain something new to the person hearing it, and at the same time be persuasive. This dichotomy you’ve set up be explaining & persuading seems 2 collapse

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      Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays 14 Jun 2019
      Replying to @Heterodoxy85 @SamHarrisOrg

      Think of an analogy being like a gun store. It is a delivery vehicle for a gun. The gun might persuade someone someday, but not so much the store.

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        2. What’s in a name‏ @Heterodoxy85 14 Jun 2019
          Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @SamHarrisOrg

          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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        3. Gregory Makles‏ @GregoryMakles 14 Jun 2019
          Replying to @Heterodoxy85 @ScottAdamsSays @SamHarrisOrg

          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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        1. What’s in a name‏ @Heterodoxy85 14 Jun 2019
          Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @SamHarrisOrg

          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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        1. What’s in a name‏ @Heterodoxy85 14 Jun 2019
          Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @SamHarrisOrg

          ...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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