Doctrine of Analogy

The Doctrine of Analogy is a principle used to draw parallels between similar situations or concepts, helping us understand new ideas by comparing them to familiar ones. In general knowledge, it allows us to make educated guesses or predictions based on past experiences or established knowledge. For example, if two diseases share similar symptoms, we might infer that treatments effective for one could work for the other. This approach helps us make sense of complex information by leveraging known relationships and reasoning from one context to another.