These themes are bound to arise in a law school classroom, too, but so will a very different line of analysis. Law students find courts and legislatures asking questions such as: is surrogate ...

In Bruen, the Supreme Court held that "when the Second Amendment's plain text covers an individual's conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct." To justify a regulation, "the ...

Analogy is an approach where we compare two things to highlight their similarities or differences. It implies understanding the relation between two concepts and then using it to understand a new ...

Analogical reasoning, the process of identifying correspondences between seemingly disparate domains, is fundamental to human cognition. It facilitates problem solving and learning by allowing ...

In my view, one of the most vexing of all types of questions used on IQ tests is the one that asks us to complete an analogical formula such as the following one: Bird is to flying as human is to... I ...

As we mentioned earlier in this series, one of the goals of these articles is to help forum members separate productive debates from flame wars. If this our goal, we have an obvious challenge: what do ...

This article addresses the functions analogical reasoning may have in science and everyday life. The focus ranges from the heuristic and probative value of this kind of reasoning to its illustrative ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Brandon Valeriano is the Donald Bren Chair at the Marine Corps University and a ...

Analogies are a mainstay of human communication and reasoning. We know instantly what it means to say that “Bing Cosby has a velvet voice” or that someone is “as annoying as fingernails on a ...