A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.

a process of reasoning whereby two entities that share some similarities are assumed to share many others.

A rhetorical device using the features of something familiar (and often concrete) to explain something unfamiliar (and often abstract), or similarities between things that are not usually associated.

(a nal´ o jee) [Gr. analogia: resembling] • A resemblance in function, and often appearance as well, between two structures which is due to convergence in evolution rather than to common ancestry. (Contrast with homology.)

Resemblance in characteristics (e.g., body form, behavior) as a consequence of independent adaptation to the same or similar environmental conditions and not due to common ancestry; Related Terms: Homology

n. Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.

The case of similar function despite different structures; the opposite of paralogy. Similar to the evolutionary concept of convergence.

an illustration of how something works or looks by showing how it is similar to something else

a teaching tool, a way to draw a picture to make something more clear to the listeners by showing them something they understand and saying, "It's like that

A statement that compares something new to something familiar. Analogies are used to make abstract information concrete and to organize complex bodies of information.

The key to comparative symbolism which unlocks esoteric teachings.

a balloon filling up with water, stretching as the pressure increases

an egg, where the whites are the oceans and the yolk, the solid part of the earth

an imploding air balloon deep in ocean water

a mobile - no matter how the objects on a mobile rotate, they are still connected in the same way

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to show a likeness in one or more ways

An irregular language change that reduces irregularity within a language by keeping the relationship between phonotactics, syntax, and semantics transparent, it is expressed mathematically in the form a:b = c:d. It occurs when the expected form is overgeneralized and applied in situations where an irregular form is the standard, thus the expected form gradually becomes the new standard.

Parallel development of a form. Analogy is particularly apparent when an irregular form regularizes, ie, develops in parallel with the regular ( productive) forms of the language, eg vencer now has the past participle vencido rather than the medieval vençudo. However, analogy can sometimes result in the irregularising of a regular form: andar has developed the irregular Preterite form anduve, presumably by analogy with other irregular Preterites in -u-e ( tuve, supe, etc).

Rule change in which speaker extends a rule to items not previously covered by it. Children often overgeneralize the past tense of know as "knowed" by analogy. This kind of overgeneralizing shows that "hypothesis-testing" rather than "imitation" is the principal form of language acquisition (Daniels 18). In the history of English, holp, the past tense of help, was replaced by helped by analogy. Ease of articulation or simplification is one cause of language change over time.