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Analogy Fallacies
Disciplines > Argument > Fallacies > Analogy Fallacies
Analogy is a very useful way of explaining by taking a new idea and finding a similar but known idea in a familiar domain. Other attributes of the familiar can then be used to explain further aspects of the new domain. This is, however, a hazardous activity, as although things may be similar in some ways, they are seldom identical and useful comparisons can easily go too far.
- Composition: Generalizing from a few to the whole set.
- Division: Assuming the parts have the characteristics of the whole.
- False Analogy: X has property Y. Z is like X. So Z has property Y.
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