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Analogical reasoning is considered to be the pinnacle of cognition and it only develops in humans between the ages of three and four.

From Scientific American • Feb. 10, 2015

But some academics are now offering an elegy for the analogy: "Analogical thinking is at the very foundation of how we make use of old knowledge to understand new things," says Lohman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Analogical predication is of two kinds: a term or concept may be affirmed of a variety of subjects either by analogy of attribution or by analogy of proportion.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Analogical reasoning from history or from recent experience in other places is wholly delusive.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Analogical evidence is generally more successful in silencing objections than in evincing truth.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry