Five Criteria for Evaluating Comparative Reasoning
● Familiarity
● Degree of knowledge the listener has about the
object to which the unknown is being compared
● Successful comparisons direct listener’s attention to
a more familiar object
● Simplicity: Measure of the relative complexity
of the comparison
● Comprehensiveness
● A comparison is more comprehensive than the other based
on the number of central or essential features it captures
● Productivity
● Capacity to suggest ideas beyond those mentioned in the
initial comparison
● Testability
● Capacity to project consequences that have potential to be
shown to be false, inapplicable, or unacceptable
● Familiarity
● Degree of knowledge the listener has about the
object to which the unknown is being compared
● Successful comparisons direct listener’s attention to
a more familiar object
● Simplicity: Measure of the relative complexity
of the comparison
● Comprehensiveness
● A comparison is more comprehensive than the other based
on the number of central or essential features it captures
● Productivity
● Capacity to suggest ideas beyond those mentioned in the
initial comparison
● Testability
● Capacity to project consequences that have potential to be
shown to be false, inapplicable, or unacceptable
