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Reason in a way
Answer for the clue "Reason in a way ", 9 letters:
analogize
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. make an analogy [syn: analogise ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Analogize \A*nal"o*gize\, v. i. To employ, or reason by, analogy. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To express as an analogy. 2 To treat one thing as analogous to another.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"explain by analogy," 1650s, from French analogiser (17c.) or directly from Greek analogizesthai "to reckon, sum up," from analogia (see analogy ). Related: Analogized ; analogizing .
Usage examples of analogize.
Europe in the seventeenth century, the symmetry of analogizing physical forces to animate ones and biological phenomena to technological models was broken.
The mechanism, I conjectured, would be analogized to the waxing and waning of light on a native world.
I took a sight from that universe-plane and analogized it into the "direction" (slightly more accurately, the "pattern") I wanted to "face" ("assume").
Vinge posits that in a direct neurocybernetic interface, the information would be analogized by the brain into symbols it is comfortable with.
It is possible that the latter usage evolved from the first, with the advisor being analogized to a Househead’s trusted weapon.
It is possible that the latter usage evolved from the first, with the advisor being analogized to a House Head’s trusted weapon.
In other words -- and this is what I wish to stress in what I am saying here -- it is now possible that we can learn about the artificial external environment around us, how it behaves, why, what it is up to, by analogizing from what we know about ourselves.
Our electronic constructs are becoming so complex that to comprehend them we must now reverse the analogizing of cybernetics and try to reason from our own mentation and behavior to theirs -- although I suppose to assign motive or purpose to them would be to enter the realm of paranoia.
The trick is to strike a balance between too much indiscriminate analogizing on the one hand, and a sterile blindness to fruitful analogies on the other.