analogism

1. (logic) An argument from cause to effect; an a priori argument.Examples: "all Judications and Analogisms may faile"; "Epilogism as opposed to analogism proceeds from what is seen."; "The inclination toward simplified and/or distorted (but often useful) reasoning in the form of analogism and a propensity to organise events into teleological narratives to which causality is attributed, is of particular interest to this discussion."countableuncountable

2. (linguistics) The belief that grammar is not arbitrary, but follows rules and patterns.Examples: "A large part of the modernization process consisted in lexicon building which relied on vocabulary creation using analogism and derivation from classical sources."; "It was long thought that these books represented a genuine debate among Greek grammarians—normally thought to be Pergamene (anti-analogist) and Alexandrian (analogist)—and that a conflict between analogism and anomalism was a dominant feature of Roman grammatical thought in Varro's day."countableuncountable

3. (philosophy) The belief that the world consists of separate entities that follow certain rules or universal forces.Examples: "Why the drive to reduce these multiple modes of identification, forms of participatory knowing, and/or ontologies to one? My animism is better than your naturalism, totemism, analogism, or whatever."; "Defining pantheism as an ontology alongside analogism, it may be noted, requires an emendation to Descola's four ontologies: naturalism, totemism, animism and analogism."countableuncountable