analogist


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someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy

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Seger and his Silver Bullet Band rode the song to fame back in the analogist era of the early 1970s, when rockers vied to get their pictures on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and had no recourse to other fame-making tools such as Instagram and Facebook.<br />But the real rockers of the day toured the country, or at least their corner of the country, by one type of wheeled automotive vehicle or another.
James's necessary high-handedness here follows the Emersonian tradition of Self Reliance: 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' (6) The same oppositional stance energizes what James reports Emerson protesting in 1842 to audiences who wanted to label him 'Transcendentalist': 'I am not the man you take me for.' (7) But beneath both denials lies the implication of a possible accord, endorsed in 'Nature' (1836): 'man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects'.
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The war had been kept short, and American casualties were relatively low, thus containing any would-be Vietnam analogists and permitting the president to declare victory over Saddam Hussein and the legacies of Vietnam.