Hastings brought the idea of focus back again in
his second use of the analogy, on stage at the Code Conference.
Not exact matches
It is not a perfect
analogy but — except,
of course, for the part in which analyses that
use the number
of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health
of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when
second - order measures, such as the dependence
of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.
Our analysis
of the biblical concept
of revelation has prepared for us a first degree analogical
use of the term and here we are led to a
second degree
analogy.
For Anselm, who made extensive
use of it, this model was based on a profound experience
of guilt interpreted by means
of legal
analogies.9
Second, the sacrificial victim model
uses the images
of the temple sacrifice.
Richards reminds him that he has
used the «war»
analogy before — but at that time (before the election) to argue that at a time
of war you needed to keep spending, not cut it, until the war was over,
using the examples
of Churchill in the
second world war.
In both situations, there is a heavy
use of metaphor and
analogy to either create new perspectives or, as in the
second case, give a comfortable, familiar aura to strange new products.
To
use a cricketing
analogy, batsmen are always told to complete the first run quickly, because then the option
of a
second or third run becomes available.
To
use the
analogy of the Atomic Clock, if the Earth were 24 hours old we were at 38
seconds to midnight when we reversed the trend towards the End Times.
To
use analogy in law, the Judge suggests that you (1) establish similarities between two cases; (2) announce the rule
of law embedded in the first case; and (3) apply the rule
of law to the
second case.
Here's our
second submission to the Legal Industry Video Awards, this one has been entered by Nuix and takes us into the world
of ediscovery and
uses the
analogy of baked bean cans to illustrate the problems
of searching Dark Data.