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Individual analogical arguments remain important for scrutiny and critical assessment of theoretical models even at the heuristic level

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1.Plausibility arguments at the heuristic level are not immune to scrutiny and critical assessment
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2.Making explicit analogical arguments in favour of a paradigm enables the philosophical assessment of competing theoretical models
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3.The philosopher of physics' task includes providing exactly this kind of assessment during theory discovery
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1.Kuhn argued that paradigm choice is governed by incommensurable world-views, making cross-paradigm analogical scrutiny epistemically illegitimate.
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2.If theoretical frameworks share no common measure, analogical arguments between them produce rhetorical persuasion rather than genuine critical assessment.
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