IdleRich
IdleRich
Analogies are like this too. Or I think they are particularly useful for demagoguery in that you can pick something that points to an obvious conclusion and which looks like something else but isn't really analogous in the crucial part.We can - and do - do without concepts just fine on the whole. It's nice when some clever person expresses something in a concise way, but it's rarely anything new and is open to abuse when it becomes popular, or just a crutch for lazy thinking.
For example this is one I've seen a few times
#Socialism is like a mousetrap.
It works because the mouse doesn't understand why the cheese is free.
Don't be a mouse.
Cos yeah the free cheese is a trap. So if socialism is analogous to a mousetrap then yeah, you shouldn't accept any state handouts... but it's a big If, in fact I think that's the whole argument. So that quote above does nothing towards proving it, but I think it kinda looks clever/effective if you don't think about it.