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The essence of analogy
is the testing of all subjects of doubt by the application of some standard of comparison about which
there is no question, the proof that is to say of the
uncertain by reference to the certain. This can be
done in two different ways: by comparing similar
words, paying special attention to their final syllables
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(hence monosyllables are asserted to lie outside the
domain of analogy1) and by the study of diminutives.
1 sc. because two monosyllables, unless identical, cannot have the same final syllable.
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