Posted by dorayme on 11/23/13 11:41

In article
<1141385096.221952.17330@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
"Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Barbara de Zoete wrote:
> > > That's the CSS Box Model.
> > To me it represents common sense. What if you ship stuff across the
> > Atlantic in your Ocean Steamer?...
>
> Analogies are pretty stupid as you can make one up that supports any
> side to any argument. How about facts? Can you not support your
> argument using facts?

Well, hang on there Travis. You have just thrown out a valuable
means of arguing things. BdeZ's analogy is not too bad to bring
across a concept. Often, assembling facts is quite stupid, the
other side can assemble the different facts or worse, the very
same ones!

You can see the point of an analogy in a way that you cannot see
the point of a fact.

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dorayme

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