analogy是什么意思及用法

名词

1.类似，相似

2.类推，类推法

词形变化

复数analogies

英语解释

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate

drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect

an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others