单词 | paralogy |
释义 | paralogyn. rare before 20th cent. 1. False or specious reasoning: = paralogism n. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy paralogy1646 paralogism1693 pseudo-logic1933 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. iii. 343 That Methuselah was the longest liver..we quietly beleeve: but that he must needs be so, is perhaps below Paralogy to deny. View more context for this quotation 1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 127/2 You will search the editorials of the New York Herald Tribune for many years before you find any nobler specimens of paralogy. 1989 Profession (Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer.) 7/1 It may be based on the type of..theory whose very possibility seems obviated by the polarization of thought..into more or less random association (or even paralogy). 2. Biology. Esp. in the terminology of I. J. Hunter: morphological or anatomical similarity that does not imply homology or similarity of function (analogy); an instance of this. rare. ΚΠ 1964 I. J. Hunter in Nature 7 Nov. 604/1 (title) Paralogy, a concept complementary to homology and analogy. 1964 I. J. Hunter in Nature 7 Nov. 604/1 Paralogy, then, refers only to anatomical similarity and has no phylogenetic or functional implications. 1966 Systematic Zool. 15 221/2 I therefore argue that the terms homology, paralogy (sensu Hunter, 1964), operational homology..and morphological correspondence..are absolutely equivalent. 1966 Systematic Zool. 15 225/2 Without further evidence chemical absolutes must be treated as biological paralogies, i.e., their status and value are unknown. 3. Molecular Biology. Paralogous relationship; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1970 W. M. Fitch in Systematic Zool. 19 113 Where paralogy is the desired conclusion, one is on even stronger grounds. 1979 Systematic Zool. 28 157/2 Previously unsuspected cases of paralogy which are then confirmed by further more encompassing biological investigations as real paralogies. 1989 Q. Rev. Biol. 64 312 Genomic nonequivalence and paralogy also call into question what the DNA hybridization technique purports to measure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1646 |
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