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• Title:
  The Cumulative Force of Analogies
• Creator:
  Botting, David
• Description:
  In this paper I will argue that most objections to deductive analyses of a priori analogies are incorrect, often involve basic misinterpretations of what the deductive reconstruction of those arguments are saying, and sometimes also betray a confusion about what part of the reasoning corresponds to the analogical inference. In particular, I will be focusing on a raft of objections made by Juthe in [2015] and subject his alternative views to criticism.I will then argue that Juthe does implicitly have a good argument against deductivism: adding further analogues seems to have a cumulative force that they would not have on a deductivist analysis. This is so not only in ordinary analogical arguments but, perhaps surprisingly, with a priori analogical arguments. I will then argue that this does not favor a sui generis view of the analogical argument over inductivist views, and attempt to show that a confirmation-theoretic approach to analogical inference makes the best sense of our intuitions about the strength of analogical arguments.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Date:
  2017.05.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018): March; 105-141;
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Tom 27 Nr 1 (2018): March; 105-141;
  2300-9802;
  1425-3305
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/LLP.2017.011/12002
• Subject:
  aarguments by analogy;
  a priori analogy;
  deductivism;
  complex analogies;
  inferential strength;
  analogical reasoning
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/LLP.2017.011
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text