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Analogy |
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The inference that two or more things that are similar to each other in some respects are also similar in other respects. An analogy denotes that similarity exists in some characteristics of things that are otherwise not alike. In a legal argument, an analogy may be used when there is no precedent (prior case law close in facts and legal principles) in point. Reasoning by analogy involves referring to a case that concerns unrelated subject matter but is governed by the same general principles and applying those principles to the case at hand. ANALOGY, construction. The similitude of relations which exist between things
compared.
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BMP receptor signaling occurs in a manner analagous to the TGF-[beta] pathway, with Smad1/5/8 binding to the type I BMP receptor, followed by phosphorylation of these factors upon ligand activation (Miyazono et al. Within a framework of limited technology and circumscribed social and aesthetic aspirations, vernacular solutions tended to prevail and in many cases are directly analagous to a particular climate. This approach for handling measurement error is analagous to errors-in-variables regression (Heise, 1975, 1986; Fuller & Hidiroglou, 1978; Warren, Keller-White, & Fuller, 1974) in which regression coefficients are estimated in the presence of errors in measurement. |
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