Levinas argues in Totality and Infinity that genuine alterity must resist reduction to what the same can anticipate or project, making it structurally incomprehensible through analogical inference.

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Analogical inference(the main subject of the philosophical statement): A type of reasoning where you conclude that if two things are similar in some ways, they're probably similar in other ways too—like arguing that because a new smartphone is like the previous model in design, it probably works similarly.
Levinas(the statement refers to his philosophical position): Emmanuel Levinas was a 20th-century philosopher who argued that other people are fundamentally mysterious and unknowable to us—their inner thoughts and feelings can't be fully captured or understood through our normal ways of communicating.
Structurally incomprehensible(describing the nature of true otherness): Something that cannot be fully understood or known, not just because we haven't learned enough, but because understanding it completely is impossible by its very nature.
Totality and Infinity(the primary work referenced)

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