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Analogy.

Analogy or analogical reasoning is a component of logical thinking that seeks to find the commonality between two or more perspectives. When thinking logically, analogy makes it so that what you know about one situation can help you infer new details about another. For example, if you know a colleague at your job is an identical twin, you can analogically reason that their twin, who you have not met, looks just like them.

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