Please tell me where the cultural bias exists in this sample IQ test questionpic.twitter.com/UETWz4b2Cr
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Does any of that mean persuasive?
To me, analogies are to arguments as icing is to cake. They can enhance, but you need the base.
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Nice analogy
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Apologies to Scott if I misconstrued his claim. Analogies prove useful in classroom settings. I fully grant they are of far less utility in direct P2P argument, or any adversarial setting.
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Patterns are abstractions of complex reality and because they repeat they can help us predict the future. Because they simplify, they reduce complexity and help us understand the world.
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Because the acid test for the validity of an argument is how good it predicts the future and there is no system other than patterns to help us predict the future, it follows that patterns are the base of all valid arguments.
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Unless the cake has marzipan on it, then my wife won't even listen to the argument.
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This is deep. As a Physicist can't stress enough how much I agree.
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Right, like icing, an analogy can assist in motivating one to dive in. To that end, I believe they are tools for inducing self-persuasion. (Or the appearance of having persuaded oneself).
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To me, analogy is to argument what a makeshift, not-to-scale model is to a detailed blueprint. It lets you "see" the whole idea, but you'll need the details to get it right.
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IME analogies can be dangerous when somebody who understands the analogy but not the base tries to reason off of the analogy alone.
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Explaining analogies with an analogy. Brilliant.pic.twitter.com/7bjFJoUiv4
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I remember that coming up in your Scott Adams interview where he stated that analogies are terrible for persuasion but great for introducing a new idea
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