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is a tool which may be used legitimately to gain 'relational knowledge' but not objective knowledge.

Analogy may be used legitimately to gain 'relational knowledge' but not objective knowledge, and the main object of such relational knowledge is God. It is only legitimate to reason analogically of God in such a way 'as the promotion of the welfare of children (=a) is to the love of parents (=b), so the welfare of the human species (=c) is to that unknown in God (=x), which we call love' if we admit that this argument holds only 'for us, though we have left out everything that could determine it absolutely and in itself' (P 58). (Caygill 'kant' : 66)

 decides nothing, but can make one feel more at home.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. Sigmund Freud

 translates an established truth into simple language or whether it adventurously aspires to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. Winston Churchill

is a conceptual instrument much as the microscope and the telescope are optical instruments, allowing us to see ideas emotionally too close or too far for us to perceive it.

Analogy is a conceptual instrument constructed by means of the proper arrangement of words, much as the microscope and the telescope are optical instruments constructed by means of the proper arrangement of lenses. If an object is too small or too far to be perceptible with the naked eye, we may be able to see it by viewing it through an optical instrument. Similarly, if an idea is emotionally too close or too far for us to perceive it, we may be able to see it by viewing it through an analogy.

is always deceiving more than it reveals.

Analogies always deceive more than they reveal; I am no fan of analogies, I do not use them. Even metaphor, that mental operation we use with almost every word we speak, is slippery and deceptive. I always speak as plainly as I can.

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