Analyze the structure of the analogical arguments in the following passages, and evaluate them in terms of
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Analyze the structure of the analogical arguments in the following passages, and evaluate them in terms of the six criteria that have been explained:
Just as the bottom of a bucket containing water is pressed more heavily by the weight of the water when it is full than when it is half empty, and the more heavily the deeper the water is, similarly the high places of the earth, such as the summits of mountains, are less heavily pressed than the lowlands are by the weight of the mass of the air. This is because there is more air above the lowlands than above the mountain tops; for all the air along a mountain side presses upon the lowlands but not upon the summit, being above the one but below the other.
—Blaise Pascal, Treatise on the Weight of the Mass of the Air , 1653
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Introduction To Logic
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