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    analogy


    1. I suppose it’s why I used the Bond analogy, although in my case it wasn’t


    2. The following analogy will help you to understand


    3. To give you an analogy, let’s say your body runs on electricity


    4. “I don’t feel quite that strongly, I guess in the same analogy, I hope the candle can be re-lit


    5. “Then in that analogy, I am the re-lit candle, same candle, different flame


    6. To re-use an analogy she gave me, a re-lit candle shouldn’t have such a different flame


    7. couldn’t decide whether the analogy was too complex for


    8. Jon Kabat-Zinn, who has written a lot on this subject, uses a sports analogy to talk about mindfulness


    9. As an analogy, the Universe can be viewed as a huge intricate machine, made from gears of various sizes with Earth being a cog right in the centre of all these moving parts


    10. In order to explain our inability in seeing spiritual beings, we can use the common analogy of a fan

    11. The late spiritual guru Sai Baba, used an analogy of electricity to describe our relationship with others


    12. In the above analogy, electricity represents the source of our life


    13. A modern analogy of this way of life is the use of a telescopic camera


    14. hardiness of their ordinary life prepares them for the fatigues of war, to some of which their necessary occupations bear a great analogy


    15. shoe, was the analogy he recalled from his Academy days


    16. I‘m not sure where I‘m going with this so try and follow my line of reasoning inasmuch as I am liable to form an uncertain analogy as it relates to the childlike treatment of the (subject) people involved: undermining freedom, initiative, self-reliance, (human) potential and an individual‘s moral and intellectual authority; that is to say, contrary to an individual‘s inherent right to naturally evolve into a productive human being; to learn, think and act independently in his or her (own) inestimable manner


    17. ‖ To use a simple analogy, in the ―old days‖, before the emergence of


    18. A simple analogy will hopefully serve to reinforce my argument


    19. This, in my view, is not an appropriate analogy


    20. I dismissed that whole line of thought as a bad analogy

    21. To keep with the fire-related analogy, the huffing and puffing started in earnest almost as soon as the Presbytery of Aberdeen first sustained the call to Queen’s Cross


    22. In addition to emotional thinking, then, we learn to apply strategies like imagination, logic, and reasoning by means of analogy


    23. Are we afraid it's only an analogy


    24. when only another makes an analogy?


    25. There was something in our bones or bodies that is not there anymore after it was sent through hell, an analogy for the crematorium


    26. When I share this story, people think it is an exaggeration or an analogy, but unfortunately it is the literal truth


    27. As he made his way around the room, my heart began thumping like that of a teenage boy about to ask his long term crush out on a date, (perhaps a little misleading this analogy, though there’s no denying that Massimo is a good looking fella!)


    28. Again, a simple dish, left to speak for itself and what a lovely voice it had (I’m aware I’ve used this quite ingenious analogy before, but I’m now struggling – it is the ninth course to be fair, cut me some slack, it’s really arduous to review a ten course tasting menu


    29. The Dhammapada gives the analogy of a wagon wheel following the hoof of the ox – showing how the mind is the forerunner of all things:[21]


    30. In Buddhism the operation of karma is classically demonstrated with the analogy of throwing a stone into a pond

    31. A dream analogy, together with karmic understanding, can help us to perceive our present "reality" in a deeper and more profound way


    32. What exactly is rebirth? Gill Farrer-Halls in her book, Working with Karma, gives an insightful answer by drawing on the analogy of the flame of a dying candle: [97]


    33. The Buddhist texts illustrate rebirth with an analogy: the flame of a dying candle is used to light a new candle and then peters out


    34. An analogy may be helpful to explain emptiness further


    35. An analogy that can assist in understanding rebirth (and karma) is that of the ocean:[180]


    36. Another analogy, for those who wish to consider the next life or rebirths, is as follows: In the transition from this life to the next, the quality of death consciousness becomes important – since it conditions the arising of the next moment, the rebirth consciousness


    37. The analogy of a seal imprinting wax may be helpful in understanding the overall process


    38. Our internal intentions and actions over a lifetime always affect our own waters (using a river analogy) – but what happens on the shore is affected by people and events that may be beyond our control


    39. MISSED! I told him that the pilot analogy is very accurate, since they never get into a plane without going


    40. “Okay, that was a bad analogy,” grunted Cloud, “but I

    41. “How could I forget the reluctant hunter? Perhaps that was a poor analogy


    42. Although it is a bizarre twist of ethics and morals to equate humans and animals, some might be persuaded to apply the analogy to those who do


    43. In the Bible, Paul uses the analogy of a race to describe faith in God


    44. An object distorts the attentional field in the sense of the force analogy, but the attentional field values do not represent forces of attraction


    45. We feel that the material analogy is inadequate because the material conception of


    46. analogies, such as the absorption of water by a sponge, but in this analogy water simply moves from the outside of the sponge to the inside


    47. sub-categorization of propositions, but that sub-categorization cannot be one of truth if we are to follow the species analogy


    48. We cannot, however, take this analogy too far


    49. In continuing with this analogy, I will have to say that the


    50. I had this analogy in my head that everything my dad had done











































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    Synonyms for "analogy"

    analogy doctrine of analogy parallel correspondence likeness similarity

    "analogy" definitions

    an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others


    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect


    the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate