It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further ...

It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, to the Middle Ages. One of its characteristics was that “reasoning by analogy” was rampant; another characteristic was almost total intellectual stagnation, and we now see why the two go together. A reason for mentioning this is to point out that, by developing a keen ear for unwarranted analogies, one can detect a lot of medieval thinking today.

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