An analogy is a comparison between two objects, or systems of objects, that highlights
respects in which they are thought to be similar. Analogical reasoning is any type of thinking …

This paper investigates the process of reasoning through which a judge determines whether
a precedent-case gives her a binding reason to follow in her present-case. I review the …

The paper provides a qualified defence of Bruce Waller's deductivist schema for a priori
analogical arguments in ethics and law. One crucial qualification is that the schema …

Abstract Aristotle's Rhetoric (1393a26ff) mentions fables as a specific type of paradeigma or
argument by example, which he finds are good for popular persuasion (dēmēgorikoi) …

The present volume assembles a relevant set of studies of argument by analogy, which
address this topic in a systematic fashion, either from an essentially theoretical perspective …

Argument by analogy has long been regarded as the characteristic way of arguing in ancient
Chinese culture. Classic Chinese philosophers not only prefer to use analogy to argue for …

This paper uses argumentation tools such as argument diagrams and argumentation
schemes to analyze four examples of argument from analogy, and argues that to proceed …

In this article I defend what I call a 'particularist approach to arguments by
analogy.'Particularism is opposed to generalism, which is the thesis that arguments by …

Arguers sometimes cite a decision made in an earlier situation as a reason for making the
equivalent decision in a later situation. I argue that there are two kinds of “case-to-case …

I argue that conductions are a special type of inference indeed, but that this does not mean
that we need to develop novel standards of inference goodness or specific argument …