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    There is strong motivation for developing a critical account of analogical reasoning.

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    • 1.An unproductive or misleading programmatic analogy can become entrenched and self-perpetuating.
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    • 2.An entrenched misleading analogy leads researchers to construct data that conform to it rather than challenging it.
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    • 3.Such distortion of inquiry is a serious epistemic danger.
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    • 1.Analogical reasoning is self-correcting within scientific practice: competing analogies naturally displace entrenched ones when predictive failures accumulate.
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    • 2.Kuhn's account of paradigm shifts shows that misleading analogies are overthrown by normal scientific mechanisms, not by external critical frameworks.
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    • 3.A formal critical account imposes premature constraints that may suppress productive analogical reasoning before its fertility is fully realized.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations suggest that no explicit critical account can fully codify the tacit judgment required to evaluate analogical reasoning.
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    • 2.If analogical reasoning resists full systematization, a 'critical account' produces only the illusion of rational control while obscuring the role of skilled judgment.
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    Analogies have a related (and not entirely separable) justificatory role. This role is most obvious where an analogical argument is explicitly offered in support of some conclusion. The intended degree of support for the conclusion can vary considerably. At one extreme, these arguments can be strongly predictive. For example: Example 1. Hydrodynamic analogies exploit mathematical similarities between the equations governing ideal fluid flow and torsional problems. , a system of pipes through w
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