display all the ideas for this combination of texts
2 ideas
16307 | Don't trust analogies; they are no more than a guideline [Halbach] |
Full Idea: Arguments from analogy are to be distrusted: at best they can serve as heuristics. | |
From: Volker Halbach (Axiomatic Theories of Truth [2011], 4) |
15770 | Some things cannot be defined, and only an analogy can be given [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: It is not right to seek a definition for everything - for some things an overview is to be had by analogy. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1048a33) | |
A reaction: This is what David Lewis called the 'way of example' in defining what is meant by 'abstract objects'. |