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  1. A multiple case inference and other minds.Alec Hyslop - 1979 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 57 (4):330-36.
  • Connection or Competition: Identity and Personhood in Feminist Ethics.Grace M. Jantzen - 1992 - Studies in Christian Ethics 5 (1):1-20.
  • Analogies and Other Minds.Bryan Benham - 2009 - Informal Logic 29 (2):198-214.
    The argument by analogy for other minds is customarily rejected as a weak inference because the argument is based on a single instance. The current paper argues that this objection fundamentally misunderstands the inferential structure of analogies and so misrepresents the role analogy plays in the justifycation of belief in other minds. Arguments by be uniquely suited to draw inferences from single instances. This defense does not remove all difficulties faced by the argument by analogy for other minds.
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