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    It is not the case that A general justification of analogical reasoning cannot support all arguments conforming to schema (4) without proving too much

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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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    • 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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