When a speaker compares two similar cases and implies that what is true in one case is true in the other, the comparison is an example of reasoning by analogy.
<h3>What is reasoning by analogy?</h3>
Analogymeans a comparison of things based on resemblance of a particular aspect of the things. In other words, it is a comparison of things that are not exactly the same but are similar or identical to each other.
Reasoning by analogy, or analogical reasoning, refers to a type of reasoning that is based on finding a common relational system between two things. An example of reasoning by analogy is: the Sun is a star since it emits its own light.
Rather than looking separately at urban and rural areas and what matters to each of them, it is vital to look at the linkages between them: it is from here that lasting change will come.
