Hi everybody, this is Gadsad. Some of you who watched my most recent appearance on

Pierce Morgan's show might remember that the structure of our 20-minute exchange was

him taking a position and then my offering a set of analogies to demonstrate the erroneous nature of his positions.

And I use analogies because they're actually an incredibly important and powerful cognitive structure of how to make arguments.

And this book right here in my 2023 book, I really do hope more people were to go out and

order a copy.

Between pages 118 and 122, I offer some discussion of the importance of analogical reasoning. I'll

just read a small part just from the introduction, although the entire section, the entire

book is fantastic. In my public engagement, I often use analogical reasoning to demonstrate the fallacy of a given

position. The power of analogies comes from our human desire to compare and contrast experiences

and data, or to put it in the context of this chapter, analogies apply intellectual,

variety-seeking, and interdisciplinary interests to the common sense application of logic.

Some of the greatest scientific insights in human history were arrived at via analogical reasoning,

perhaps none as famously as Johan's Kepler's use of extensive analogies in developing his cosmological work on planetary motion.

So this is in the 2023, The Sad Truth About Happiness Book.

And so despite the fact that I had prepared a very broad range of analogies for Pierce,

I wasn't able to get through.

The point that I was trying to make, I mean,

there were different analogies were used for slightly different reasons, but one of the arguments I was trying to make is that you really have to have the imagination to extrapolate

from a current position. If the current position is this, can I trace a trajectory

to forecast where I'll be at time T plus X? And so let me try three new attempts. Okay. So if a train is

one kilometer away and it is traveling toward me where I am stuck on the train tracks.

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