Timeline for Is the argument by analogy logically consistent?
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| Sep 13, 2023 at 8:11 | comment | added | Speakpigeon | @causative "and is the same concept as analogy" Clearly not. Talk to neurologists. 2. "AI researchers" Not the same thing as neurologists. | |
| Sep 12, 2023 at 2:52 | comment | added | causative | @Speakpigeon "Pattern recognition" is used by neurologists and AI researchers, and is the same concept as analogy. | |
| Sep 11, 2023 at 16:13 | comment | added | Speakpigeon | @causative "the pattern of the sensory data is similar to the sensory data resulting from tables you've seen in the past," Exactly, which is why we say not that what we see is analogous to a table but that it is a table (and possibly the same table). We don't say that this is an analogy because this is not what we mean by analogy. I suspect the word "analogy" is not even used by anyone specialised in neuronal processes. | |
| Sep 11, 2023 at 5:08 | comment | added | causative | @Speakpigeon If you want to split hairs, it's not the table that looks like a table, it's the sensory data we are receiving that looks like a table. You are not certain it is a table; it's just sensory data. It could be an illusion, you could be in a dream, you could be fooled by a demon, you could be having a stroke. But the pattern of the sensory data is similar to the sensory data resulting from tables you've seen in the past, so that's what you reasonably assume it is. | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 15:22 | comment | added | Speakpigeon | @causative "We look at the table (it sure looks like a table; an analogy.)" Not an analogy. Looking at a table, we are certain it is a table. No analogy. The brain says it is a table. Analogy starts when looking at something we think is not a table (it doesn't look like it), but is somehow analogous to a table, say, it has four legs, perhaps a dog. We are certain it is a dog, but we elect to think in terms of the analogy with the table. You are mixing up irrelevant considerations about neurons with logical reasoning. This is a category error. | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 15:09 | comment | added | Speakpigeon | @causative "A neuron does nothing but match patterns" Could you add some academic references? | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 7:37 | comment | added | Arti | But all arguments in favor of the existence of other minds rely on their own case, which makes them arguments by analogy, but in other arguments, analogy is used as an explanation that is justified by further premises. Can an argument by analogy be used to justify the existence of other minds as an initial reason that can then be supported by other arguments? | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 1:49 | history | answered | causative | CC BY-SA 4.0 |