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6961 | An analogy begins to break down as soon as the two cases differ [Hume] |
Full Idea: But wherever you depart, in the least, from the similarity of the cases, you diminish proportionably the evidence; and may at last bring it to a very weak analogy. | |
From: David Hume (Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion [1751], Part 2) |