Help with sets

[Steve Howell]

On Oct 14, 9:22 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message
> <12fcd67a-774d-42f0-851a-9c3497df9... at s24g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, Steve
>
> Howell wrote:
> > On Oct 14, 4:09 pm, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew... at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> >> Steve Howell wrote:
>
> >> Maybe "analogy" or "similarity" would be a better word here.
>
> > Agreed.  "Analogy" seems particularly appropriate.
>
> Except that, while analogies can be handy for illustrating things, they are
> useless for actually supporting arguments.

And only a fool would try to support his argument by actually
illustrating a point, right? ;)