analogizing
Finding similar patterns
Analogizing is drawing comparisons between different things to illuminate similarities or make a point.
It's the active process of reasoning by analogy: She kept analogizing the company's problems to a sinking ship.
The term appears most often in academic or analytical contexts where systematic comparison is a method of argument.
Compare to another
- parallelEquidistant at all points
- equatingTreating as equivalent
- juxtaposePlace together for contrast
- correlateShow mutual relationship
contrast · resemblance · akin · benchmark · match · equivalence · differentiate · gauge
Conclusion reached through reasoning
- deductionConclusion from premises
- inductionFormal admission process
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
- generalizationDeriving principles from examples
extrapolation · conceptualization · problem-solving · cognition · heuristic · transfer · application · logic
Representing through imagery
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- parableInstructive allegorical narrative
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- imageryVivid descriptive language
allusion · representation · emblematic · connotation · poetic · evoke · resonance · personification
Representative case shown
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- clarificationMaking meaning plain
- explanationStatement making something clear
- simplificationMaking something less complex
scaffolding · bridging · familiar · concrete · accessible · lesson · pedagogy · instruction
liken
Compare to another
correlate · contrast · resemblance · akin · benchmark · match · equivalence · differentiate · gauge · measure
inference
Conclusion reached through reasoning
- deductionConclusion from premises
- inductionFormal admission process
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
generalization · extrapolation · conceptualization · problem-solving · cognition · heuristic · transfer · application · logic · syllogism
figurative
Representing through imagery
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- parableInstructive allegorical narrative
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
imagery · allusion · representation · emblematic · connotation · poetic · evoke · resonance · personification · vehicle
example
Representative case shown
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- clarificationMaking meaning plain
- explanationStatement making something clear
simplification · scaffolding · bridging · familiar · concrete · accessible · lesson · pedagogy · instruction · elucidation
- comparisoncomparative, contrast, superlative, matching, positive
- explainingexplaining, clarifying, elaborating, elucidating, expounding
analogizingliteralizing
Treating figures as facts
specifying · explicating · detailing · enumerating · itemizing
analogizingdifferentiating
Identifying distinct features
distinguishing · contrasting · discriminating · particularizing · isolating
analogizingliteralizing
Treating figures as facts
specifying · particularizing · deducing · calculating · literal interpretation
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