Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Life is like an analogy.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
Science always uses metaphor.
I'm really great at making terrible analogies.
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.