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Features of an analogous system does not map sensibly onto the target system.
"Sometimes, a distinction is made between positive, negative and neutral aspects of an analogy. In the nucleus-brain comparison…there are negative aspects to the analogy (the brain uses electrical signals as well as chemical signals: the nucleus just the latter)." (Taber, 2013, p.1380)
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