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:
If you cut up a large diamond into little bits, it will entirely lose the value it had as a whole; as an army divided up into small bodies of soldiers loses all its strength. So a great intellect sinks to the level of an ordinary one, as soon as it is interrupted and disturbed, its attention distracted and drawn off from the matter in hand: for its superiority depends upon its power of concentration—of bringing all its strength to bear upon one theme, in the same way as a concave mirror collects into one point all the rays of light that strike upon it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Noise,” 1851
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Introduction To Logic
ISBN: 9781138500860
15th Edition
Authors: Irving M. Copi, Carl Cohen, Victor Rodych