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    It is not the case that There is strong motivation for developing a critical account of analogical reasoning.

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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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    • 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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