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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] course of reasoning, fr. [GREEK] to think over, to calculate]

(Logic)

an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument.

Johnson.

Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.

Crabb.

Noun.

[Gr.] An argument from the cause to the effect.

Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.

analogism ‎(plural analogisms)

(logic) An argument from cause to effect; an a priori argument.
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investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other
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investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other