12-04-2009, 12:51
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Re: The existence of God
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
a few atheist who perhaps have had a bit too much to drink as they'd clearly left their manners at the door.
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Analogy:
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a⋅nal⋅o⋅gy /əˈnælədʒi/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [uh-nal-uh-jee] Show IPA
–noun, plural -gies. 1. a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
2. similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
3. Biology. an analogous relationship.
4. Linguistics. a. the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when a child says foots for feet.
b. a form resulting from such a process.
5. Logic. a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects.
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