An example of analogy in science scholarship:
"Even though the concept of 'being bald' is vague – in certain cases we don't know how to distinguish between a bald person and a hairy one, and if we pluck one hair at a time from a hairy person, there is no moment at which she becomes bald – at the extremes of the spectrum there is still a clear-cut distinction between baldness and hairiness. Likewise in the quantum/classical case: this fact, for Bohr, is enough."
Dorato, Mauro (2017) Bohr's relational holism and the classical-quantum interaction, in, Neils Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics. Twenty-first-century perspectives (Jan Faye & Henry J. Folse, eds.) Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp.133-154.
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