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Analogical Investigations - Historical and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning (Paperback)
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Analogical Investigations - Historical and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning (Paperback)
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Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing
some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the
truth, delivering robust explanations, verifying conjectures,
showing that inferences are sound and demonstrating results
conclusively. By contrast reasoning that depends on analogies has
often been viewed with suspicion. Professor Lloyd first explores
the origins of those Western ideals, criticises some of their
excesses and redresses the balance in favour of looser, admittedly
non-demonstrative analogical reasoning. For this he takes examples
both from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and from the materials
of recent ethnography to show how different ancient and modern
cultures have developed different styles of reasoning. He also
develops two original but controversial ideas, that of semantic
stretch (to cast doubt on the literal/metaphorical dichotomy) and
the multidimensionality of reality (to bypass the realism versus
relativism and nature versus nurture controversies).
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