Analogy

Language---thought---works through analogy.Analogy is claimed to be the core of human cognition due to its pervasive involvement in phenomena such as language, reasoning and learning. However, this phenomenon has mainly been studied in isolation through computational methods, which has made it difficult to appreciate its different roles in diverse cognitive phenomena. Recent studies have signaled that abstract concepts from category theory are able to describe constructions carried out by the human mind, thus presenting this formal theory as a general framework to study cognition.[Navarrete 17]
----People are not so good with analogies. They will think what you liken something to must be the same thing as what you liken it to.--
The value of an analogy depends on the quality of one’s experience. But the method of analogy corresponds to “concentration without effort”. Specifically, the analogy is either directly intuited or it is not. The rational intellect is of not help, except as preparatory work. This preparation requires the accumulation of experiences and study of the teachings. Only in that way can the faculty of immediate perception of analogous correspondences be developed. As a form of “play”, it becomes almost childlike. The child plays, yet is concentrated, with a complete and undivided attention. Analogously, that needs to be our attitude when approaching the kingdom of God.Jesus promises something like life in this world, but better. He begins with the life we all experience and uses it to explain something infinitely better – life eternal (zohn aiwnion, Mt 19:29, Jn 3:16). It’s not only something of the future, but something of the perpetual now.  We are asked to choose life (Deuteronomy 3:19) and told that life is central to Jesus’ ministry (Jn 10:10). [Lucas Mix, Astrobiologist. On his web log.]
If I have chosen as an example the analogy between the lung and the stomach, it is to guard against an error that is made very often and which closes to everyone the knowledge of the Hermetic texts. That is the belief that two analogous things are similar.[Cologero, MeditationsOnTheTarot.com]
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Logos; Analogism; An; a; log; y; Analogistics; Logistics;