analogism

Noun

analogism (countable and uncountable, plural analogisms)

1. An argument from cause to effect; an a priori argument.
   • all Judications and Analogisms may faile1657, Henry Pinnell, Oswald Croll, Philosophy Reformed & Improved in Four Profound Tractates
   • Epilogism as opposed to analogism proceeds from what is seen.2012, P. Nicolacopoulos, Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, page 106
2. The investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.
   • As the analogism, to be perfect, requires equal extremes in evidence of an equal mean, it is principally applicable to intellectual science and universals, in which these perfect or necessary relations are principally found;1818, George Field, “The Third Organon Attempted; or Elements of Logic and Subjective Philosophy”, in The Pamphleteer, volumes 11-12, page 481
   • Visible most obviously in the Metaphysical poets, analogism finds in humankind and all creation "the vestiges and signature of their creator" ( 61 ) .1999, Christianity & literature - Volume 49, page 260
3. The belief that grammar is not arbitrary, but follows rules and patterns.
   • A large part of the modernization process consisted in lexicon building which relied on vocabulary creation using analogism and derivation from classical sources.2014, Lotfi Sayahi, Diglossia and Language Contact, page 23
   • It was long thought that these books represented a genuine debate among Greek grammarians—normally thought to be Pergamene (anti-analogist) and Alexandrian (analogist)—and that a conflict between analogism and anomalism was a dominant feature of Roman grammatical thought in Varro's day.2018, James E.G. Zetzel, Critics, Compilers, and Commentators, page 42
4. The belief that the world consists of separate entities that follow certain rules or universal forces.
   • Why the drive to reduce these multiple modes of identification, forms of participatory knowing, and/or ontologies to one? My animism is better than your naturalism, totemism, analogism, or whatever.2018, Zayin Cabot, Ecologies of Participation, page 146
   • Defining pantheism as an ontology alongside analogism, it may be noted, requires an emendation to Descola's four ontologies: naturalism, totemism, animism and analogism.2022, Olaf Almqvist, Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies