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SIMILARLY

                                              November 19, 2005

The simile admits differences:
it knows that it is tentative,
imperfect.

The metaphor is grandiose, it
takes a sweeping equality for
granted, it makes a pretense         Though we all expect the
of perfection.                       cowardly retreat to
                                     "artistic liscence" if
                                     challenged.


      The analogy covers the whole
      range of both, and goes a
      little further toward truth:

         It is possible (though                  In classical physics,
         rare) for an analogy to                 there's the analogy
         be exact.                               between linear and
                                                 rotational motion:
            The analogy may even be              the equations that
            a seed of induction,                 describe both are the
            an early observation of              same, albeit with the
            a new general principle.             peculiar "moment of
                                                 inertia" substituted
                       HOMILETICS                for the more
                                                 intuitive "mass".





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