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A wave for the Python reference!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy doesn't put it that way.

    Argument from analogy is a special type of inductive argument, whereby perceived similarities are used as a basis to infer some further similarity that has yet to be observed. Analogical reasoning is one of the most common methods by which human beings attempt to understand the world and make decisions.
The python reference indicates you imply a form of fallacious reasoning which the general "argument by analogy" isn't. The below is a good example I found though -

    "There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head: two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth...From this and many other similarities in Nature, too tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets must necessarily be seven."
    – Francesco Sizzi, 17th-century Italian astronomer


Relevant book by Douglas Hofstadter - "Surfaces and essences: Analogies as the fuel and fire of thinking"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7711871-surfaces-and-ess...




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