On the Judgement of the Reliability of Analogy Conclusions
Chen Yun · Journal of Baoji College and Science · 2001
Traditional logic tries to improve the reliability of analogy conclusions by seeking out “as many as” similarities. But this makes it difficult for people to grasp “as many as”similarities under the indefinite conditions, and the concept of “as many as” is obscure in itself, in which extra information inevitably arises. And some objective conditions do not allow people to search for “as many as”similarities. Therefore, as for the reliability of analogy conclusions, one should not deliberately pursue the “amount”, but he can make judgements by means of decisiveness, consistence and relevance, and formalize them by using probability theory and set theory.