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    A general justification of analogical reasoning cannot support all arguments conforming to schema (4) without proving too much

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    • 1.Many analogical arguments conforming to schema (4) are bad arguments
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    • 2.A general justification that supports all arguments conforming to schema (4) would thereby support bad arguments
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    • 1.A general justification need not validate every token argument; it can establish normative criteria that distinguish good from bad instances.
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    • 2.Mill's methods and Bayesian confirmation theory provide general frameworks for inductive reasoning without licensing all inductive arguments.
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    • 3.The 'proves too much' objection conflates a schema's generality with uncritical endorsement of all its instantiations.
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    • 1.Aristotle's treatment of paradeigma in the Rhetoric shows that analogical reasoning admits of degrees of strength evaluated by internal criteria.
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    • 2.A general justification can be regulative rather than permissive, specifying conditions of adequacy that many schema (4) instances fail to meet.
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    Any attempt to provide a general justification for analogical reasoning faces a basic dilemma. The demands of generality require a high-level formulation of the problem and hence an abstract characterization of analogical arguments, such as schema (4). On the other hand, as noted previously, many analogical arguments that conform to schema (4) are bad arguments. So a general justification of analogical reasoning cannot provide support for all arguments that conform to (4), on pain of proving too
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