In message <12fcd67a-774d-42f0-851a-9c3497df9...@s24g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, Steve Howell wrote:
> On Oct 14, 4:09 pm, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> Steve Howell wrote: >> >> Maybe "analogy" or "similarity" would be a better word here. > > Agreed. "Analogy" seems particularly appropriate. Except that, while analogies can be handy for illustrating things, they are useless for actually supporting arguments. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
