The analogical use of a metaphor.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Second, it has a certain analogical strength (particularly upon first impression).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Final Version of “Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: A General Approach”] Reference

If this is a Schiavo thing, it’s lacking in analogical power, but I’ll leave it at that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Intuition Poll] Reference

These "analogical" processes are at the heart of scientific exploration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference

These analogical derivations were based on three principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karaite Women.] Reference

Okay ... so this is not a perfect metaphorical, analogical match up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why DLC Doggies Hump Republicans] Reference

It is worth noting the analogical connection between justification and rationality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

But again, what matters here is a kind analogical skill, a skill of making connections.    From Wordnik.com.  [CEFACS lecture, Birmingham] Reference

Ibn Hanbal met the difficulty by discarding altogether the principle of analogical deduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

If a verse could not be found bearing on any given question, analogical deduction was resorted to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

The advent of cybernetic technology has greatly added to the analogical force of the man-machine idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Technically, it means the analogical reasoning of the learned with regard to the teaching of the Qurán, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

It would be quite possible to demonstrate this point of analogy, were this the place for analogical reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

To this theory of evil as privation, Augustine adds analogical arguments of an aesthetic and part-whole nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [THEODICY] Reference

I believe Edwards thinks these uses of the terms see ', taste', and feel 'are figurative or (better) analogical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

I can only differ from the above in the allegation that Mohammad recommended a principle of analogical deduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference

To this allegorical meaning, we also refer the analogical, as opposed in a similar manner to that which is typical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference

So there is an analogical connection between Aristotelian rationality and rationality construed as proper function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

This sort of thinking is, of course, still imaginative and analogical, but it is quite different from that of the poets.    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTH IN ANTIQUITY] Reference

Paradigms set (or are sets of) direct and analogical rules about their subjects and act very much like Gestalt phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Energy] Reference

By the analogical rules of the covens, there was only one valid word for themselves in their present state: they were gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Names]

By means of the numerical proportions in music the analogical character of everything that exists can be known and demonstrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART] Reference

They carried the principle of analogical deduction to dangerous lengths in order to satisfy the latitudinarianism of the Khalíf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

Perhaps, too, his matter-of-fact attitude was caused partially by the analogical resemblance between himself and the organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [What The Left Hand Was Doing] Reference

In order to explain the movement of heavenly bodies, the Milesian philos - ophers resort to analogical models of a mechanical sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTH IN ANTIQUITY] Reference

The natural system of classification is based upon a proper appreciation of the distinction between homological and analogical characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

But there are also adaptive and purely analogical homologies, such as the interdigital palmation of aquatic birds, amphibians and mammals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

There are, how - ever, exceptions to this, the most important of which are the analogical or systematically ambiguous terms of metaphysics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Rule III, which has been much discussed and variously interpreted, can be char - acterized, at least in a loose way, as an analogical rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The beginning of things must needs lie in obscurity, beyond the bounds of proof, though within those of conjecture or of analogical inference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference

It begins with a playful threat directed at those who, as Gale thinks, accept the analogical argument for the cognitivity of religious experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

He gives this argument in the course of addressing what he calls "the analogical argument for cognitivity," which he associates with William Alston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

The main point is the combining; “Body Politike” is simply a synonym for “political entity” with no further analogical mean - ings intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference