In estimating the value of an argument from analogy, we must reckon the points of difference as counting against the conclusion, and also the points in regard to which we do not know whether the two objects agree or differ.
If we do this, we may call any kind of argument an argument from analogy, for all inferences turn upon resemblance.
The analysis is similarly useful when you want to construct an argument from self-evident principles.
Newton's famous inference that the diamond is combustible is sometimes quoted as an argument from analogy.
This is an argument from God's justice to the immortality of the wicked, as the preceding was an argument from God's love to the immortality of the righteous.
Though the wicked forfeit all claim to this future, we have here an argument from God's love and wisdom to the immortality of the righteous.
This is therefore an argument from God's justice to the immortality of the wicked.
We are supported in these doubts as to the value of Evolution's argument from Geology by the fact, that many of the most eminent geologists deny any proof of evolution in their chosen science.
The decisive test is to suppose the proposition to be true; then, if it will account for the condition, it is an argument from cause.
It is an argument from cause, used not as a proof, but to establish a probability.
By prescinding from theism I do not mean to exclude or deny it; for it is, as I have just said, bound up with the same conception from which the "argument from adaptability" is drawn.
It is not our immediate concern to prove the value of the "argument from adaptability," but simply to show that it is logically (though not really) unaffected by the question of theism and finality and design.
This is not properly an argument from effect to cause; for the proposition that every effect must have a cause is simply identical, and means only that every caused event must have a cause.
The Cosmological Argument, or Argument from Change in Nature.
The Anthropological Argument, or Argument from Man's Mental and Moral Nature.
This is not properly anargument from design to a designer; for that design implies a designer is simply an identical proposition.
However it be, there can be no argument from hence, to own the authority of tyrants and usurpers.
In order to determine the strength of an argument from analogy, attention should be given to the differences existing between the two propositions considered.
An effect is so associated with its cause that the existence of an effect is a sign of the existence of a cause, and such an argument is called an argument from sign.
There is a particular kind of evidence frequently available for debaters and argumentative writers known as argument from authority.
Argument from example is the name given to the process by which one reasons that what has been true under certain circumstances will again be true under the same or similar circumstances.
Untrained minds misapprehend the meaning of the word Design, and are further still from apprehending the real force of argument from analogy.
At the head of all their reasonings, Natural Theologians usually place the celebrated argument from Design.
In saying that lungs were intended to breathe, and eyes to see, we imply an argument from Fitness to Design, which carries conviction to the overwhelming majority of cultivated as well as uncultivated minds.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "argument from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
