Analogist

Quick meaning: Analogist is a noun meaning Someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.

Meaning

Someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy) An adherent of analogism.
2. (linguistics) Pertaining to analogism, as opposed to anomalism.
3. (philosophy) Pertaining to analogism.

Example Sentences

This is what characterises his 'analogist' mode, and indeed, he takes China as a paradigmatic example of an analogist society,

those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament

The analogist disposition treats difference not just as a demagogic commitment to "democratic diversity," but as a true metaphysical condition of things that needs to be a relevant factor for any epistemically virtuous philosophy.

The analogist does not think that a bee, a flower and a human are the same in body nor in soul, but presupposes that all of them are affected by processes that are not only external to them, but frame and enable their possibilities of daily experience.

Word Forms

• analogists

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include analyst, allegorizer, allegorist, metaphorist, metaphorician, aretalogist.

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