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Weak Analogy

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Arguing from an analogy whose similarities are irrelevant to the projected property.

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"Employees are like family, and you don't lay off family." The respects in which they differ are precisely the ones at issue.

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Near-miss: analogy as such is indispensable — case law runs on it. The verdict comes from video 335's criteria, never from "that's just an analogy."

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