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Previously in this journal, the analogical reasoning of the North American philosopher Judith Thomson has been illustrated, interpreted, and logically analyzed (Revista de Filología y Lingüística XXXI (2): 249-270, 2005). Therefore, the purpose of this article is to develop a critical analysis of this reasoning. This analysis will take into account all the analogies and will classify them as they share important points that are going to be considered in the second part of the work. Only the analogy of the violinist will be treated separately because it has been considered the strongest in argumentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay is an approach to the poetic of Octavio Paz, seen as a search of conjunction of the opposites. For this purpose, we analyze the analogy concept and how it works in the love speech and in the poetry speech, since both are considered as attempts of the human being to escape from the cultural state and return to his original one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the definition, characteristics and use of the analogy. Moreover, it develops the use of analogy like a way of argumentation. This presents the Judith Jarvis Thomson's analogy argument in defense of abortion. It describes and analyses the analogies of this argument and it determines the logic structure based in a method that here is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]