what is analogy give an example and explain?

Answer 1

Analogy - comparison but not exactly the same

An apple and an apple pie -- both contain apples- but different

a young child and a teenager - both are children, but different

a puppy and a kitten - both are very young domestic animals

A mother's love and a father's love - both are parents

GOD bless us one and all, always.

Answer 2

In logic, analogy is the name of an inductive form of argument which asserts that if two or more entities are similar in one or more respects, then a probability exists that they will be similar in other respects. For example, if one student was an excellent debater at school, scored high on the admissions test to university, and then did unusually well at university, a second student who is a champion debater and scored high on the test will probably excel at university too.

In theology, theorists have held that knowledge of God's nature can be partially gained from knowledge of his creation through the analogical use of language. From the knowledge that human beings are good, they argue, goodness is also predicated of God. When God and human beings are both referred to as good, however, the term goodness is not being used univocally—that is, the term is not being used in exactly the same sense. Neither, however, is the term good being used equivocally when predicated of God and human beings—that is, the term is not being used in altogether different senses. Thus, it is argued, the term is being used analogically. Although the creature is not precisely like the creator, the creature is, in some sense, like (analogous to) the creator. Thus, ascribing goodness to God on the basis of an understanding of what it means to ascribe goodness to human beings does result in knowledge, however limited, of the nature of God.

Historically, analogies have been used for a variety of purposes. Literary analogies are used to paint vivid pictures with words, while scientific analogies are used for explanatory purposes. In philosophy, Plato illustrated his ideas by the use of well-developed analogies.

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Answer 3

An analogy is when you compare two things to each other. Like you could say that Bush is analagous to an idiot. Actual analogies compare one pair of things to another.

Ex:

cat is to animal, and flower is to plant.

in that analogy, im compairing PAIRS. so a cat is a type of animal and i can compare that pair to the fact that a flower is a type of plant. notice, that all objects don't have to be living or of the same species. it's categorical.

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Answer 4

Trying to teach some people proper grammar is like swimming upstream in a very fast river. They can get overwhelmed and flail against an onrush of bad examples.

(Not you of course; just giving you an example.)

Answer 5

a comparison between 2 things, that are similiar in some way