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    Treating all analogical arguments as single-case induction is too restrictive and fails as a general analysis

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    • 1.Hesse's material theory of analogy shows analogical inference derives force from causal-structural relations, not membership in natural kinds.
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    • 2.Many productive analogical arguments in science (e.g., sound/light wave analogy) succeed without identifying essential properties of any kind.
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    • 3.A general analysis of analogical reasoning must accommodate such scientific cases, which single-case induction systematically misdescribes.
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    • 1.Gentner's structure-mapping theory demonstrates analogical strength tracks relational isomorphism between domains, independent of kind-membership.
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    • 2.Requiring natural kind identification as a precondition for valid analogy would falsely invalidate cross-domain analogies central to theoretical reasoning in law and ethics.
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    • 1.Single-case induction requires knowing one is dealing with a natural kind or Aristotelian nature
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    • 2.Single-case induction requires knowing which properties are essential
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    • 3.Most analogical arguments do not meet these requisite conditions
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    Recasting analogy as a deductive argument may help to bring out background assumptions, but it makes little headway with the problem of justification. That problem re-appears as the need to state and establish the plausibility of a determination rule, and that is at least as difficult as justifying the original analogical argument. 2 Inductive justification Some philosophers have attempted to portray, and justify, analogical reasoning in terms of some well-understood inductive argument pattern.
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