Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:32:51 -0500
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: Re: More on Modernism, Reason and Myth


In this case, Leo, it has been understood that analogy is not a valid mode
of reasoning since the Enlightenment. Only a few "intellectuals" who don't
seem to get the Enlightenment would contend on this and a variety of other
issues. Analogy can never make a case; this is obvious. Using analogy to
establish an argument is like trying to explain natural phenoemena using
the principles of sympathy and contagion (Yes, I know that was an analogy).

Rahul




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