What Is an Argument by Analogy

question 48

Multiple Choice

What is an argument by analogy?

• A) An argument that because two cases are exactly alike, we should make the same moral judgment about them.
• B) An argument that although two cases aren't really alike, we should still make the same moral judgment about them.
• C) An argument that because an action resembles the action that a virtuous person would do, it is a virtuous action.
• D) An argument that because two things are similar in some ways, they are also similar in some further way.

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