Method

Comparison

Overview

a method of examination or evaluation of two or more entities to deduce their similarities and differences

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However, a comparison may just as well be witty as comic, and what is more one may be independent of the other, in that the comparison becomes an aid for certain techniques of wit, as, for example, unification or allusion. Thus Nestroy’s comparison of memory to a “Warehouse” (p.
Sigmund Freud, Wit and its relation to the unconscious
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And we need only consider what comparison is, to see that where the objects are more than two, and still more when they are an indefinite number, a type of some sort is an indispensable condition of the comparison. When we have to arrange and classify a great number of objects according to their agreements and differences, we do not make a confused attempt to compare all with all.
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
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Its results are indeed indispensable, but they are still labours only preliminary to truly intelligent cognition. If it be the office of comparison to reduce existing differences to Identity, the science, which most perfectly fulfils that end, is mathematics. The reason of that is, that quantitative difference is only the difference which is quite external.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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Part of Nyaya.