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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Analogism

· A·nal·o·gism · IPA
01 n. an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument.
  1. 1.
    an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument.(Logic)
  2. 2.
    Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.