DYNAMIC-SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY


ANALOGIES 7 and 8

Chose one of the three Samples as the most analogous to the Model, and write it down, with your reasoning.

7.- Doctor-Patient

Mother-Child
Lawyer-Client
Confessor-Penitent

8.- Stars-Luck

Lottery-Prize
Prayer-Salvation
Work-Reward

CHOICE AND EXPLANATION

7.- Lawyer-Client :-) A Patient is a Client of a Doctor. ('Doctor' is used here to mean 'physician.') A Doctor is compared to a Confessor because he keeps secret his knowledge about the patient's disease. But a Penitent is not a client of a confessor. I do not see what's Mother-Child doing here as a sample except create confusion. Well, a mother takes patient care of her child, but she does it gratuitously. In this game, the attribute is of relationship.

8.- Prayer-Salvation :-) What is Salvation? The concept of Luck is not so unclear, but still, who can demonstrate the connection of Stars with luck ? On the other hand, there is a relation between Work and Reward and between Lottery and Prize. The common attribute in this analogy game is abstruseness.

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