False Analogy – a type of Fallacy in which a noticed similarity between two phenomena leads to a troublesome conclusion that those phenomena must be similar in other ways (This website is rife with examples. Because virtually every discourse presented is grounded in specific metaphors/analogies, all of them present the risk of over-extending those metaphors into False Analogies.)
Please cite this article as:
Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2025). “False Analogy” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.
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