to analogize
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7.9
- verb
- /əˈnælədʒaɪz/
- US
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analogizar
- You can analogize the structure of an atom to a miniature solar system.
And at this point, Hume would say this sort of extrapolation, this sort of analogizing, is pure anthropomorphism.
- And at this point, Hume would say this sort of extrapolation, this sort of analogizing, is pure anthropomorphism.
- So, so you can analogize the US to the British Empire or this the late Soviet empire.
- There is no map of the mind that isn't a map which relies on looking at things of the world and analogizing from that.
- Analogizing from what we know about ourselves, analogy, analogizing, the means of these things are not exactly the same.
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I especially like the final sentence, which analogizes time as a river.
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So, you know, people have analogized this to like a, an economic singularity of some kind.
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So, so you can analogize the US to the British Empire or this the late Soviet empire.
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Peterson's method is to present these examples and then analogize to the human case.
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On the other hand, we seem to be built cognitively to analogize between text and the world, between one story and another.
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The third analogizes the free exercise of religion to free enterprise in the economic sphere.
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In some respects, it is useful to analogize plurality with research on multiculturalism within our larger society.
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The BBC is writing about the Fall of Rome, analogizing it with today's conditions.
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In defamation suits, courts should analogize the Supreme Court's model for free speech defamation cases to free exercise defamation cases.
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Salmon are easy to harvest, given their homing instinct; the Supreme Court even analogized salmon harvests to agriculture.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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1.4
To look at more than one thing and show how they are the same or different
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5.1
Say that one thing is similar to another
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4.6
Point out similarities between two or more things to show how they are alike
How Similar
Surface Forms
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Etymology
Analogize comes from the same root as analogy, which comes from Greek parts ana- ('according to' or 'again') and logos ('reason' or 'word'). Think of it as making a 'reasoned comparison', so to analogize is to compare one thing with another to explain or make it clearer.