Analogy and Balancing: The Partial Reducibility Thesis and Its Problems

Résumé En Sl

With an analysis of the structure and the sequence of analogy, the paper is mainly a critique to the partial reducibility thesis: a thesis sustaining that analogy, besides a strictly analogical step, is in the remaining part reducible to balancing. Thus, the paper points out some problems raised by the partial reducibility thesis, such as the contingency of reducibility or the fact that a proper analogy is done under the cover of a balancing. The main point is, however, the claim that analogy and balancing have opposite normative conditions, being this premise the reason to a structural explanation for the unacceptability of the reducibility enterprise.

Analogno sklepanje in tehtanje: teza o delni zvedljivosti in njeni problemi. Avtor z analizo zgradbe in poteka analognega sklepanja poda kritiko teze o delni zvedljivosti, tj. teze, po kateri je analogno sklepanje – z izjemo tistega koraka, ki ustreza strogi analogiji – mogoče razložiti kot obliko tehtanja. Avtor najprej izpostavi nekatere probleme omenjene teze; na primer nenujnost zvedljivosti in dejstvo, da se pod krinko tehtanja opravlja prava analogija. Osrednje sporočilo razprave pa je trditev, da analognega sklepanja ni mogoče uspešno zvesti na obliko tehtanja.